Summer / Fall 2010 Vol. 60, no. 2/3

Archives Project Update: Year 1

A processing manual has been created to ensure unifor- Cynthia Rufo, ASOR Archivist mity in collections processed by graduate student interns. The manual also includes digitization procedures and n our first year, the ASOR archives project has gone guidelines for handling archival materials. from a start-up project to a fully functional archive. For more information about our processing procedures, IWhile there is still a huge amount to be done, be sure to read the accompanying article on processing. a formal archive has undoubtedly been established. 2. Conservation The goals we have achieved in the first of the project fall into five categories: In addition to the American Palestine Exploration Soci- ety collection, ASOR’s 1873 Ottoman firman has also been 1. Processing digitized and sent to NEDCC for conservation. Because the To date, twenty one collections have been processed, archivist is trained in preservation and preservation digi- or are in process. Fifteen finding aids are available on the tization, we were able to significantly reduce the original ASOR website. (Appendix 1.) With each collection we pro- budgeted costs associated with the digitization and conser- cess, the importance of this body of materials becomes vation of these materials. more apparent. The collections that have been processed 3. Digitization during this period include the Clarence Fisher Papers, which contain Fisher’s exhaustive and unpublished Pal- A digitization workflow has been established in ac- estinian Pottery Corpus, the Shechem Excavation Records, cordance with digitization standards and best practices. and the papers of Ernest Wright, the former ASOR Presi- In total, we have digitized over 15,000 documents, pho- dent who was involved in the discovery and publication tographs, and drawings. Again, we are ahead of the work of the Dead Sea Scrolls. All three of these collections have plan, which called for the development, not the execution already been used by researchers. of a digitization workflow. continued on page 3 The American Palestine Exploration Society Photo- graph Collection (informally referred to as the “Dumas In this Newsletter photos”) was slated for processing, digitization, and con- servation in the next phase of work. However, we are ASOR Archives Project Update ...... 1, 3 ahead of schedule with this and many other processing What does it mean to Process a Collection ...... 4-5 projects. The photograph collection was processed, digi- Chairman’s Report to the Board of Trustees ...... 6-7, 9 tized, and sent to the Northeast Document Conservation Highlights from the Spring Center (NEDCC) for repair in May. Executive Committee and Board Meetings ...... 8-9 The three collections housed at the Semitic Museum Fiscal Year 2010 Honor Roll...... 10 at Harvard University have been almost completely pro- ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program ...... 11-26 cessed. In the original work plan, these records were not ASOR Annual Meeting to be addressed until the second year of the project. How- Business Meetings, Receptions, and Events Schedule ...... 27 ever, these materials were identified as having great po- Academic Program Updates for the 2011 Annual Meeting ...... 28 tential interest to researchers. Since processing began, four The American Center of Oriental Research (AMMAN) researchers have used these collections. Announcement of fellowships 2011-2012 ...... 30-31

The American Schools Letter From the President of Oriental Research is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization founded in 1900.

SOR’s archives are a velopment plan for feedback, P. E. MacAllister uniquely important with the goal of submitting Chairman of the Board resource. They pre- it for approval at the spring A Timothy P. Harrison serve an unparalleled record of board meetings in April of President the history of North American next year. scholarship in the Middle East, Concurrent with this ef- Eric M. Meyers Past President from its earliest engagements fort, it is incumbent that we in the nineteenth century continue to maintain our ac- Andrew G. Vaughn through to the present. Thanks tive program and financial Executive Director to funding from the NEH, commitments. Thankfully, Tammi J.Schneider and the generous support of as I reported in our previous Vice President for Membership our membership, these records are finally newsletter, this past year was another receiving the attention they deserve, and Michael Homann successful one for ASOR. Despite the Morag Kersel will soon become more readily accessible continuing economic turbulence, ASOR Co-Vice Presidents for Programs to the scholarly community and broader ended the fiscal year with a balanced public, in keeping with ASOR’s mission to Jeffrey A. Blakely budget, this while continuing to award Vice President for Publications preserve and disseminate such knowledge. fellowships and maintain our full range As archivist Cynthia Rufo reports in her of programs, including another success- Øystein S. LaBianca cover story, the archives contain a wealth Vice President for ful annual meeting, and our full suite of Archaeological Research and Policy of intriguing documents, from diaries and publications. first hand ‘eye witness’ reports in the field Contributions to our Annual Fund James Strange to documents recording historic agree- were crucial to this success. I am pleased Secretary ments or events. Some are humorous, and to report that we had 100% participation Sheldon Fox many mirror the important political events from the Board, which also collectively in- Treasurer of the day. creased its support to historic levels. This The archives also preserve an insti- generous level of support was mirrored by ASOR tutional memory that is important as we our Membership, which also increased its 656 Beacon Street, 5th floor plan and look to the future, and it was in- giving considerably over previous years. Boston, MA 02215-2010 strumental in guiding the deliberations of Tel. (617) 353-6570 In all, 196 individuals contributed during Fax. (617) 353-6575 the Strategic Planning Task Force over the the past fiscal year, representing a 25% E-mail: [email protected] past two years. As I reported in our last increase over the previous year. In addi- newsletter, the ASOR Board approved the tion, approximately $22,000 was raised adoption of a Strategic Plan (www.asor. toward our Archives Initiative, thanks in org) at its spring meetings earlier this year, large part to more than 40 contributions and we have now begun to work toward made in response to a matching challenge implementing the recommendations put by three generous donors. These positive forward in this plan. To help coordinate results simply would not have been pos- and facilitate this effort, I have convened sible without the dedicated support of an Implementation Task Force, which will our membership. report to the Board and our membership The active involvement and support The ASOR Newsletter in the months to come. of our membership, therefore, will be With approval of the Strategic Plan, crucial if we are to continue the positive Andrew G. Vaughn, Editor we are now also in a position to produce Kelley Bazydlo, Associate Editor progress we have accomplished as an or- Jennifer Ste. Marie, Layout a coordinated development strategy to ganization over the past few years. These raise more permanent support for ASOR’s are exciting times for ASOR, and I wish The ASOR Newsletter (ISSN 0361-6029) programs. Accordingly, I will be working to express my heartfelt thanks and appre- is published quarterly by the American closely with the Development Committee ciation to each and everyone who gave so Schools of Oriental Research over the coming months to produce a de- generously this past year. I look forward © 2010 by tailed fundraising plan designed to identi- to seeing you in Atlanta. Until then, the The American Schools fy potential funding sources and raise the best of success. of Oriental Research funds needed to underwrite the programs Yours sincerely, and priorities articulated in the Strategic www.asor.org Plan. We will circulate drafts of this de- 2 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Archives Project Update

continued from page 1 paigns. A challenge campaign raised a total of $16,484. The sale of notecards featuring images from the archives (pro- 4. Metadata Encoding duced at no cost to ASOR by a donor) raised $2,600. We To manage and encode finding aids, we have partnered have also applied for three pending grants. One of these with the Boston University library and installed “Archon.” grants is a Boston University Jewish Cultural Endowment Archon is an open source archives content management grant, the second is a NEH Preservation Assistance grant, software package that encodes finding aids using Encoded and the third is a NEH Humanities Collections and Refer- Archival Description (EAD) and has the ability to present ence Resources grant to enhance access to digital collec- finding aids and digital objects in an online interface. Pres- tions once the current grant ends. ently, Archon resides on a hidden test server while we popu- Something we did not anticipate when initially envi- late it with our finding aids and digitized materials. Archon sioning this project was that the archives would be in rela- will help us fulfill the following goals of this project: tively high demand from the moment they were made pub- • Finding aids are encoded using Dublin Core lic. Since January, we have received 12 reference requests standard metadata and hosted four researchers. Researchers can contact the • Finding aids and digitized materials will be archivist by phone or email Monday to Friday, 8:30-5:00. remotely accessible Researchers may also make an appointment to visit the ar- chives during those times. Reading room rules have been • MARC records can be automatically generate established, as well as protocols for duplication and publi- for each collection that can be submitted to the cation. We have also been able to satisfy the needs of every Boston University library catalog and WorldCat researcher who has contacted us. We anticipate that inqui- • Finding aids and digital materials will be freely ries will increase significantly once Archon goes live. accessible to the general public via the internet We have established ties with various departments at In addition to meeting these basic goals, Archon also al- Boston University, including the University Libraries, the lows exceptional cross-collection searching that is not pos- School of Theology, and the Department of Archaeology. sible with our current archives website, and user-friendly These mutually-beneficial relationships have already ex- features like a ubiquitous “Contact the Archivist” link. We panded what we are able to do in the archives in terms of expect to go live with Archon by late fall. technology, strategic planning, and broadening our pool of Fundraising expert advisors. Since the start of our archives initiative, we have raised If you’d like to learn more about the ASOR archives $22,494 in addition to in-kind contributions. The bulk of project, visit us at www.asor.org/archives, or contact the this money has come from two successful fundraising cam- archivist, Cynthia Rufo, at [email protected].

ASOR Welcomes Kevin Cooney as Director of Membership, Subscription, and Publication Services

SOR is very pleased to announce that stone tool industries from the Paleolithic after an extensive and exhaustive search and Neolithic periods. Kevin started full-time Aprocess, Kevin Cooney has been hired work at ASOR on July 1st, and has already as Director of Membership, Subscription, and made progress on several membership and Publication Services. Kevin has a B.A. and M.A. publications initiatives. in Anthropology, and is completing his Ph.D. in Out of an excellent pool of candidates Archaeology at Boston University. In addition to who had various levels of experience, Kevin working part time in ASOR publications for the distinguished himself from rest of the appli- past four years, Kevin has worked on the Central cants with his knowledge of database sys- Lydia Archaeological Survey in western Turkey and as tems and his practical approach to providing excellent part of the excavation team at Ulucak Höyük, near customer service and increasing membership and sub- modern Izmir. He is particularly interested in scription levels. We’re pleased to have him on board research questions associated with the chipped as a full-time colleague.

ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 3 What Does It Mean To “Process” A Collection?

Intellectual Arrangement Cynthia Rufo, ASOR Archivist Once we know what is in a collection, the method of arrangement is decided upon and a folder list is created. efore a collection can be digitized, or even used by Depending on what makes the most sense for a collection, a researcher, it must be processed. In the first phase materials can be organized chronologically, alphabetically, of the ASOR archives project, the majority of the ar- by subject, or some combination of the three. The folder B list is designed such that there is a place for every type chivist’s time is spent processing the collections, but what exactly does that entail? Processing procedures vary from of material in the collection, and particularly important repository to repository. materials are highlighted. For example, the correspon- dence of past ASOR president Carl Kraeling is organized Unprocessed Material as a chronological series with a sub-series subject folder Every collection starts out as unprocessed material, for correspondence with Archbishop Athanasius Yeshue ‘unprocessed material’ refers to documents, photographs, Samuel, an important figure in the acquisition of the Dead and other records that have not been inventoried or Sea scrolls. The intellectual arrangement of each collection described in a finding aid. Though some unprocessed is determined by the unique content of that collection, its material, like the papers of past ASOR presidents, is in original order (if any), and the potential value of certain some sort of order, most has no order whatsoever. A materials to researchers. body of unprocessed material may be processed as one Throughout every step of processing a collection, the collection, or may be divided up into several collections. subject of the collection (the creator, the excavation site, The archive is a collection of collections. etc.) is researched using the materials from the collection Survey and Inventory as well as published sources. The bulk of this research is done during the intellectual arrangement phase, when, First, the materials are surveyed to determine how along with the folder list, a biographical or historical ab- they will be grouped in the collection, and if there are any stract is written for the collection. materials that may belong in a different collection. During the survey, the formats of the materials are noted (photo- Physical Arrangement and Preservation graphs, oversize materials, documents, digital files, etc.) The physical arrangement of a collection can only and intellectual content is noted. The intellectual content happen after the intellectual arrangement has been de- of the collection influences the ultimate arrangement of termined. In this phase, materials are organized into the materials. folders that correspond to the folder list and preserva- During the survey, items that may require preserva- tion measures are taken. All documents are enclosed in tion or special conservation are identified. Basic preserva- acid-free folders. Photographs and negatives are sepa- tion measures will be taken later in the process. Especially rated from paper materials and enclosed in chemically- important and damaged items are sent to a conservator inert polypropylene sleeves. Additional preservation for repair.

Photographs are placed in A box of Unprocessed Materials Metal fasteners are removed from a piece of protective enclosures correspondence using a microspatula

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Photographs and negatives are cleaned utilizing conservation materials. A box of processed materials.

measures include cleaning surface grime, removing metal spend several months on a single collection when 110 fasteners, and preservation photocopying of extremely years worth of other materials are waiting to become acidic items. If left in contact with other documents, the accessible. The ASOR archivist subscribes to the “less acid from materials like old newsprint and rust from metal process, more product” philosophy, the “product” being fasteners can eventually eat through other items in a fold- processed, accessible collections. In general, materials are er. Enclosed materials are organized in acid-free archival processed and described at the folder level, meaning a manuscript boxes and shelved in a dark storage room. folder might contain two years of correspondence and be described in the finding aid as, “Correspondence, 1958- Create a Finding Aid 1960.” With this approach, we have been able to process Once the folder list is determined, the historical ab- about two dozen collections in the first year of the ar- stract is written, and the collection is physically arranged, chives project. As our backlog recedes, we will be able to the finding aid can be created. The finding aid is a guide return to processed collections and describe special items, to the collection. It includes an inventory of the materi- particularly photographs, at an item level. als, a summary of the context in which the collection was Processing makes the information in a collection easi- created and why it is historically-significant, a scope and er to access. With a physical and intellectual arrangement content note describing how the collection is arranged in place, researchers can browse the collection using the and highlighting items or folders of special interest, and finding aid, and locate specific materials in the collection. Library of Congress Subject Headings that describe the es- The physical and intellectual arrangement also makes it sence of the collection in a handful of keywords. possible to systematically digitize a collection. Materials are digitized at the folder level, and file names correspond Encode the Finding Aid to the folder list. The finding aid created during process- As a paper document, the finding aid is helpful. As ing acts as a guide to both the physical collection and the an encoded, electronically-available document, the find- digitized version of that collection. ing aid is a powerful research tool. Each piece of the find- If you are interested in learning more about ASOR’s ing aid corresponds to standardized, searchable metadata processed, unprocessed, and digitized collections, or any- that is used nationally and internationally. Once the en- thing else about the archives project, feel free to contact coded finding aids are mounted online (they presently re- the ASOR archivist, Cynthia Rufo, at [email protected]. side on a test server), they will be visible to search engines For more information, please peruse the archives portion like Google. Until then, PDFs of finding aids for processed of the ASOR website at www.asor.org/archives. collections are available on the ASOR website at http:// www.asor.org/collections.html. It can be difficult to know when is enough in archival processing. Processing a collection at the item level, that is, describing each document in the finding aid, would provide the greatest level of access. However, every phase of processing is labor-intensive, and it is not practical to

ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 5 Chairman’s Report To the Board of Trustees April 23, 2010

sition for the invasion; failed to consider the P.E. MacAllister currents and landed eight to ten miles east of Chairman of the Board the appointed beach. But it turned out there was no organized resistance and similar con- fusion on the other side, allowing us days to hose of us who dabble in history are finally get some military forces assembled, delighted to see the books still coming replete with tanks, half-tracks and artillery. Tout retelling the story of the Late, Great When the French Foreign Legion decided not War, 65 years after it has ended. The delayed to fight, we declared a glorious victory. The reaction is doubtless due to the release of new rest of the war in North Africa went the same records, political changes now allowing access way. Bungle and recover! Bad strategy, poor to new data, translation of Korean, Chinese, execution, paucity of leadership, lack of co- Burmese and Japanese documents. Of inter- ordination, and competition between forces est because we who were a part of that enor- and commanders. The succeeding book was mous and protracted encounter now understand more fully “Day of Rattle” and followed the war into Sicily and then up what happened and why. A lugubrious and disappointing the boot of Italy. An example of the way this went is repre- experience, by the way. The latest war story is “Retribution”, sented by George Patton, who had trouble in Sicily against a review of the entire war with Japan, written by a British strong German resistance and called for a paratroop attack correspondence for the Daily Telegraph, thus, an account of on the German rear. Organized immediately, a huge flight of British, Chinese and Russian as well as American activity. The C-47s, loaded with paratroopers flew into the night sky over book is statistical, analytical, comprehensive, dispassionate Patton’s drop zone. But with a slight oversight. Patton nev- and prone as well to character judgment, evaluation of lead- er told the Navy they were coming so an entire armada was ers and opinions on military strategy. So those of us involved shot down, killing hundreds of paratroopers. Patton should now have our impressions of what occurred, juxtaposed with have been court marshaled! His arrogance and neglect cost historic fact, thus, introducing a new reality. the needless death of several hundred, fine young men. I was the Armament Officer in a P-38 Fighter Squadron The action in Italy meant slogging up the muddy pen- which shipped off to Britain on the Queen Elizabeth June insula during the winter without winter clothes. In the ab- 6, 1942 with pilots flying our aircraft across the Atlantic a sence of any tactical ingenuity, Mark Clark drove his troops couple weeks later. We spent five months in Britain (which through the mud and into German defensive lines week af- proved invaluable to us), and sailed again in late October ter week - in costly uphill frontal assaults. He decided to with a huge convoy for destinations unknown. On the 9th of cross the Rapido River in full flood during the middle of November, I was dropped off ass-deep in the Mediterranean, the worst rainy season in years under conditions alligators just west of Oran in Algeria amid a background of continu- couldn’t negotiate. The cost in men in misery, casualties and ous, if sporadic gunfire. No idea where we were headed and discomfort was enormous; all to achieve nothing. The attack like countless hundreds, others wondered what was going on Monte Casino further typifies our leadership in Italy. A on. Why is the Air Force storming the beach armed with 45 Sixth Century Benedictine Monastery, a Christian treasure, caliber pistols and carbines; where were the Vichy French? rich in history and irreplaceable architecture was bombed to How many German troops are there here? How will the lo- smithereens by Alexander to destroy the German headquar- cal populace react? It is a good thing we did not know the ters, only to learn that not a single German soldier had ever truth. Since the Vichy French were not deemed reliable, to set foot in the monastery. Thank you General! for the stupid- insure a safe landing for a division of infantry coming ashore est destruction of the war and completing the most pointless with us, two naval crafts had been commissioned to attack desecration of a Christian artifact…ever. the harbor, break the chain protecting the entrance and seize “Retribution” replicates our embarrassing lack of leader- the fort and its guns. ship this time in the Pacific. Like, say, seizing islands which A book called “Army at Darwin” tells the story of the had no strategic value at enormous human cost. Example: North African Campaign and reports that neither ship was MacArthur’s decision to retake the Philippines which ad- able to break the barrier cable; had no fallback option and no vanced our attack on Japan not one iota. Yet his protean clue on an alternate plan so were soon blown to pieces; the arrogance and “I-shall-return” fixation required vast forces crews killed or captured; the fort remaining intact. Which of Army, Navy, Air Corps and Marine troops to expend hu- didn’t make any difference because the infantry which mongous and costly resources. He blindly picked Leyte as should now be storming ashore had trouble getting into po- his base, an island covered with thick forests, swamps and

6 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 Chairman’s Report To the Board of Trustees April 23, 2010 bogs, with no transport systems whatsoever. So moving immobilized and then how do we take the next one?” It men and thousands of tons of supplies, ammunition, cloth- is that dynamic demonstrated in Easy Company time again ing, medicine, water, vehicles, etc. was a never-ending task, and repeated endless times elsewhere in the Armed Forces needlessly difficult. Tanks, trucks and jeeps were eternal- when the decision of a corporal or a lieutenant or a major or ly axle deep in mud and quagmires. His commander for a sergeant sees what’s wrong and acts to correct it; makes it the operation was General Kreuger who had no credibility happen- that won the war. among his peers, lacked ingenuity, was barren of any battle- The point here is not only that leadership from the com- field savvy, and resorted to the same costly grinding uphill mander is essential but rather that leadership in each subor- against an entrenched enemy and, thus, inexcusably costly. dinate component of the enterprise is what assures the ex- After hearing all this endless blundering, how in ecution of the mission. The generals at the desk setting up the world did we ever win the war? Two major reasons! plans rarely ever see the full scope of what they are getting America’s astounding productive capability, evident in the us into. Only when on the scene does the platoon or squad manufacture and deployment of vast quantities of mate- or company leader see the ultimate reality, then assess how rial, equipment, supplies, medicine, fuel, trucks and tanks well the plan will apply. and planes, combined with logistical I submit elements in the conduct miracles. Secondly, American ingenu- ...Winters was a thinker and a of our Armed Forces are typical in ity! Rarely at the top level. But under- “ a lot of institutions, causes, organi- neath. Across the board it was there in dedicated paratrooper not interested zations, enterprises, groups…like all services. The war Entoto recounts the symphony, the extended fam- discouraging blunders and inadequate in why things can’t be done… ily, a scholarly society, a college or leaders. But likewise, sub rosa, a reposi- ” a business. What is the purpose or tory of intelligence, know-how, dedica- objective? What’s the plan for ex- tion, ingenuity. Which was depicted beautifully in “Band ecuting? Who is in charge of doing so? What results are of Brothers”: the tale of Easy Company, 506 Regiment, needed to prove success? There are organizations in our 101st Airborne Division. This story reports the paratroop society where ambiguity about results or success exist. The drop at 1:00 A.M. on D-day, getting part of the Division protestant church is fairly clear on its mission to convert so- into Normandy, vaguely in the neighborhood of the tar- ciety and bring peace and goodwill wherever it operates. get, Ste-Mere-Eglise. The company’s commander was lost Political parties are invariably dedicated to sound gover- in the jump, leaving the men wandering in the dark amid nance, frugality, efficiency, economy. Both of these are ro- mass confusion until a Sergeant named Winters assumed bust and effusive in oratory about objectives but fail with command and then struggled to find landmarks, thus, his some consistency in delivering positive results and consis- location. Struggled also to find the rest of his guys. One tent achievement. We have a tendency to confuse rhetoric, thing was clear: the assignment. Take out four gun positions plans, ambition and aspiration with success. We confuse near Brecourt Manor at Sainte-Marie Dumont, guns aimed effort or action with progress. at the beaches where Americans would land. Winters got Now, we need to confess that I evaluate functioning his bearings and began sensing the direction to go, picking within the church or the college or the opera company or up one or two guys here, a couple there, then others from the Republican Party by assuming a similarity with how the 82nd Airborne to help and slowly put together a striking things work in a business and, thus, conclude what’s neces- force of 13 guys. He did not bewail the loss of his command- sary and appropriate in the tractor world will work when ing officer; moan because they were out of their target zone; managing the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis or didn’t have a full company; there were no reinforcements. the Gleaners Food Bank. My judgment from long experi- He knew his job. Silence the guns! When morning came, ence is that too many worthy organizations spend 89% of that is exactly what he did in a tactical maneuver developed their effort at survival and 11% on mission. That staff and when he saw the situation and sent three different elements the board grinds desperately, merely to sustain the opera- to attack and overwhelm first one gun and then the second, tion. Reminding me of an old, if un-euphemistic doggerel third and fourth. Incidentally, a maneuver against a fixed from my speech teacher who once said, “A locomotive that position still studied today at West Point. There were a lot of expands all its energy in blowing the whistle has no steam reasons why this couldn’t work, but Winters was a thinker left with which to move the wheels.” Business has an ad- and a dedicated paratrooper not interested in why things vantage in the pursuit of objective because it is not allowed can’t be done. He wondered: “How do I outsmart the 50 to function after it has failed. It was created to provide Germans in this fortified position?”; “How do I get this gun continued on page 9

ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 7 Highlights from the Spring Executive Committee and Board Meetings

Ann Arbor, MI April 23–24, 2010

• Voted unanimously to adopt ASOR’s proposed strategic Program Committee; and Gloria London as a member of plans as a blue print to move ASOR forward. Voted to ask the Outreach Committee. the president to form an implementation task force to help • The EC and board unanimously elected (upon the rec- ASOR with the specifics and timing of implementation. ommendation of the officers nominating committee) • Received the treasurers’ report with a forecast for a bal- Jennie Ebeling as vice president for membership with a anced budget for fiscal year 2010 [the audit has since three-year term to begin on January 1, 2011. The EC and confirmed that ASOR had a balanced budget and made board expressed appreciation to Tammi Schneider (who up some of the ground from fiscal year 2009]. Revenues declined to stand for another term as VP of membership) from subscriptions were down, but the ASOR staff had for her years of services. The officers nominating com- managed expenses by cutting back on staff and other ex- mittee postponed a search for a VP of CAMP because of penses. Core programs and scholarships were continued. changes suggested in the proposed strategic plan. The • Approved the budget for fiscal year 2011 that included committee encouraged trustees and members to consid- a director of membership, subscription, and publication er candidates to succeed treasurer Sheldon Fox (whose services (a position that had been vacant since January term ends at the end of December 2012). There is a desire due to budget constraints) and a goal of $75,000 for the to have the successor named 12-18 months in advance to annual fund and archives initiative. The budget does not help with the transition. include salary increases. • Received a report from CAP chair, Oystein LaBianca. • The EC and board heard a report from the board nomi- CAP reviewed 67 applications this past year. Also heard nations committee chair (Jeff Blakely) and had a discus- a presentation about a forthcoming development to the sion about ways to recruit more candidates for the board. ASOR website that will allow affiliated sites to present a Given the changes recommended in the proposed strate- summary of their work and will facilitate discussion and gic plan, Blakely asked the EC for guidance on whether coordination between excavation projects [the prototype to seek two or three persons for the open institutional has since been developed and is functional on the ASOR and membership slots. The EC advised the nominations website]. LaBianca was thanked and congratulated for committee to seek the number of candidates specified in securing outside funding to support much of this work. the by-laws (three for each category) until such time as • Publications chair Jeff Blakely reported that ASOR’s the by-laws were changed. journals would be close to being completely up-to-date • As part of ongoing trustee training, executive director by the end of the fiscal year. [Editors’ update: only NEA Andy Vaughn led a discussion on the business aspects of was behind at the end of fiscal year 2010, and it should be up-to-date by the end of September 2010]. There memberships, subscriptions, and publications. Vaughn was no further discussion about publications because wrote a 10-page paper outlining ASOR’s business model much time had been devoted to the area as part of the for these areas, and this paper (along with other support- earlier discussion. ing documents) was included as part of a growing col- lection of a board notebook or handouts for board mem- • The EC voted to continue the executive director’s bers [members are encouraged to email Andy Vaughn contract through June 30, 2012 with no changes in com- if they would like to see a copy]. There were extensive pensation. questions and discussion at both the executive com- • Heard an update on the archives project from mittee and board meetings about these documents and Eric Meyers (his report is posted on the ASOR website). ASOR’s strategic planning as it pertains to membership, The archives project is ahead of schedule, and ASOR subscriptions, and publications. Vaughn plans to present is applying for another NEH grant that will provide a similar position paper on the annual meeting at the Fall enhanced access to the materials. board meeting in Atlanta. • Heard an update on development from executive direc- • The EC and board unanimously approved the following tor Andy Vaughn. Board members were encouraged to appointments that were recommended by CAMP: Erin contribute to the archives initiative so that ASOR could Kuhns-Darby and Robert Darby as co-chairs of the Jr. qualify for 3 challenge gifts. [The ASOR board and gen- Scholars Committee; Peter Machinist, Bethany Walker, eral membership subsequently responded enthusiasti- and Michael Danti as members of the Annual Meeting cally, and we exceeded our goal]. continued on page 9

8 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 Highlights from the Spring Executive Committee and Board Meetings continued from page 8 activities in the respective countries at the annual meet- ing. The board unanimously approved the following res- • Heard a report on activities at ACOR from Sten LaBian- olution (moved by Larry Geraty and seconded by Randy ca. A report on activities at the AIAR was given by Sy Gi- Younker): BE IT RESOLVED that the Board recommends tin. There was no one present to give a report on CAARI. to the implementation task force (to be named and ap- • The board discussed ways to strengthen the relationship pointed) that the three overseas Directors be invited to with the research centers. Ideas by board members who join the forthcoming Chairs’ Coordinating Council, and are also on the boards of the research centers were pre- that each of the Centers be invited to consider the ASOR sented. Many of the ideas involved more effective repre- president or his or her designee as a member of their sentation on the respective boards and presentations on respective boards. continued from page 7 something, but at a profit. If it isn’t profitable, it goes bank- ignored. We have to replace those who don’t contribute or rupt and disappears from the scene. Survival is not success perform; something more difficult to do in academia, with in my world. If we only manage to break even year after volunteers; in the church or in a union shop. year and make payroll but are unable to provide Caterpillar We have been dealing the past months with a new decent market share, and if we don’t dominate the field, they strategic plan and have laid out some changes and defined will advise, counsel, nag and if we haven’t responded, will some new dimensions. And ASOR falls with my analogy, find someone else to do the job. If we do not grow, Caterpil- it’s like the military. Having the troops, the weapons, the lar does not grow. maps, and having a strategic document and plan of action Success for us is producing profits in order to expand does not assure success. It defines the effort and the inten- coverage, open more rental stores, provide better service. tion, but if there is not leadership at the top and through the Profits are not paid out in dividends but reinvested to do subordinate components, we are going to be disappointed more things. But note that without profits, there is no abil- in the result. Designing the plan has been arduous, but it ity to buy better tooling, more rental inventory, more train- is not the most important component in the new initiative. ing. It takes success to assure expansion, gain sophistication Because parts of it might not fall into place that readily, so it and efficiency, funding the search for excellence. The busi- is imperative to find people to modify, execute, drive, move ness people have a different stake in their operation than do it forward so we are stronger next year. Only with successful members of the symphony board or the trustees in the local execution can we try some newer things; can we expand our seminary. Livelihoods in my shop are contingent upon how agenda. If in essence we have a new tabula rasa, a new oc- well each unit performs. The success of each employee con- casion to surge forward, can we support it with re-energized tributes to the corporate result and, thus, all of us succeed. leadership across the board? Time – and our reaction - will Results derive from all who are involved. Do not operate to write the next chapter. mark time, to maintain “the same ole, same ole”, since this As is typical, you already know the things I tell you, deprives us of the rewards accruing from success. But we so let me thank you for your patience and kindness have an advantage. We select our staff; they are not thrust once again! on us. Nor are they randomly elected. To maintain levels of performance, incompetence, indolence, inexpertise can be -P.E. MacAllister

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**Please note that dates and times are subject to change. Arkadiusz Marciniak (University of Poznan), ***Start times for each paper are listed. Please note that 5 “Çatalhöyük East in the Second Half of the 7th Millennium minutes of discussion time has been allotted after the stated cal B.C. The Minutiae of Social Change” (8:20a - 20 min.) length of each paper. Kevin Cooney (Boston University), “Change in Lithic Technology as an Indicator of Cul- Wednesday, November 17 tural Transformation During the Neolithic Period at Ulucak Höyük in Western Turkey” (8:45a - 20 min.) A1 7:00-8:30p Jason Kennedy (Binghamton University, SUNY), Morag Kersel (DePaul University) and Michael Homan “Use-Alteration Analysis of Terminal Ubaid Ceramics from (Xavier University of Louisiana), Presiding Kenan Tepe, Diyarbakir Province, Turkey” (9:10a - 20 min.) Welcome to the Annual Meeting (7:00p - 5 min.) Timothy Matney (University of Akron) and Willis Monroe (School of Oriental and African Studies), Timothy P. Harrison (University of Toronto & ASOR Pres.), “Recent Excavations at Ziyaret Tepe/Tushhan: Results 7:05p - Welcome and Indroductions ( 5 min.) from the 2009-2010 Field Seasons” (9:35a - 20 min.) Kevin Fisher (Brown University), Scott Branting (University of Chicago), “Making Places in Late Bonze Age Cyprus” (7:10p - 20 min.) “The 2010 Seasonat Kerkenes Dağ” (10:00a - 20 min.) Plenary Address A4 8:20-10:25am Edgar Peltenburg (University of Edinburgh), Art Historical Approaches to the Near East “Fashioning Identity: Workshops and Cemeteries Theme: Papers will present innovative analyses of any at Prehistoric Souskiou, Cyprus” (7:30p - 60 min.) facet of Near Eastern artistic production or visual culture. Marian H. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley) Thursday, November 18 and Elise A. Friedland (The George Washington University), Presiding

A2 8:20-10:25am Introduction (8:20a - 5 min.) Archaeology of Islamic Society Karen Sonik (University of Pennsylvania), Theme: This is one of two sessions devoted to the archaeology “The Old Woman and the Sea: Envisioning Tiamat” of Islamic societies, highlighting new methods and approaches. (8:25a - 15 min.) The analysis of material culture and its distribution is a central theme of Session I. Eudora Struble (University of Chicago), Bethany J. Walker (Missouri State University), Presiding “Writing in Stone: Craftsmanship, Literacy, and Division of Labor in Iron Age Syro-Hittite Monumental Art” Introduction (8:20a - 10 min.) (8:45a - 15 min.) Katherine Burke (Cotsen Institue of Archaeology, UCLA), Aaron Koller (Yeshiva University), “New Research on Early Islamic and Crusader Ceramics “The Art of Drinking in the KTMW Stele” (9:05a - 15 min.) from Jaffa” (8:30a - 35 min.) Norma Franklin (Tel Aviv University), Virpi Holmqvist (University College London), “Ivories, Votive Capitals, Stele, and Beyond: The Origin “Ceramic Evidence for Exchange of Goods and Concepts of the Proto-Ionic or Volute Motif and its Evolution” in Early Islamic Souther Transjordan and the Negev” (9:25a - 15 min.) (9:10a - 35 min.) Ann-Marie Knoblauch (Virginia Tech), Asa Eger (University of North Carolina-Greensboro), “Assessing Cypriot Limestone Sculpture: Art or Craft?” “Divergent Umayyad and Abbasid Period Settlement Pat- (9:45a - 15 min.) terns on the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier” (9:50a - 35 min.) Rosa Maria Motta (Christopher Newport University), A3 8:20-10:25am “Dora’s Roman Coins and the Language of Religious Archaeology of Anatolia I: Current Work Iconography” (10:05a - 15 min.) Theme: Papers will offer recent discoveries and analysis of data for ongoing projects across Anatolia. Sharon R. Steadman (SUNY Cortland), Presiding

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A5 8:20-10:25am Sharon Herbert (University of Michigan) and Andrea Archaeology of Syria Berlin (Boston University), “Excavations at Tel Kedesh, Theme: This session is concerned with all areas of Syria that are Upper Galilee 2006-2010” (10:40a - 20 min.) illuminated by archaeology. These include a discussion of recent Jody Gordon (University of Cincinnati) and Elisabetta Cova archaeological excavations, history, religion, society, and texts. (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Trade and Contact Michael Danti (Boston University), Presiding in the Eastern Mediterranean: ‘Romanesis’ Lamps in Carol Meyer (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), Cyprus” (11:05a - 20 min.) “A Ritual Cache from Tell Hamoukar, Syria” Benjamin Rubin (Williams College), “Thus Saith Augustus: (8:20a - 20 min.) The Res Gestae in an Anatolian Context” (11:30a - 20 min.) Kathryn Grossman (University of Chicago), “Hamoukar Ann Morgan (University of Texas at Austin), “The Mythic During the Ninevite 5 Period” (8:45a - 20 min.) Past and Local Tradition at Aphrodisias: An Interpretation of Three Relief Panels from the Sebasteion” (11:55a - 20 min.) Susan Helft (University of Pennsylvania), “HittiteImperialism in Northern Syria” (9:10a - 20 min.) Doron Ben Ami (Israel Antiquities Authority) and Yana Tchekhanovets (Israel Antiquities Authority), “A Roman Jesse Casana (University of Arkansas), “Early Bronze Age, Mansion Found in the City of David” (12:20p - 20 min.) Early Iron Age and Late Roman Settlement at Tell Qarqur: Re- sults of the 2009-2010 Seasons of Excavation” (9:35a - 20 min.) A8 10:40am-12:45pm City and Sanctuary: A Session in Honor of Cynthia Finlayson (Brigham Young University), Robert J. Bull’s 90th Birthday “New Excavations and New Symposia Tesserae from Theme: With a focus on continuing research based on the Palmyra, Syria” (10:00a - 20 min.) excavations that were directed by Robert J. Bull at Tell-er-Ras A6 8:20-10:25am and Caesarea Maritima, we will explore and compare two sites Archaeology and the New Testament: Contexts and Texts I of very different natures, one focused on a sanctuary in ancient Theme: These sessions offer the opportunity to explore ways in Samaria, the other a large urban site with a long history. Papers which material culture studies can have a bearing on elucidat- will be presented on such topics as specific remains from the sites, ing, analyzing and contextualizing New Testament images and reconstructions of buildings, or use of a particular portion of the themes and the transmission of New Testament texts. site. Larger theoretical issues, such as the place of the site within Tom McCollough (Centre College), Presiding the history of ancient Israel, will also be considered. Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University), Presiding Carl Savage (Drew University), “Bethsaida: The Context for Jesus’ Ministry from the Archaeological Perspective of Jack Bennett (Archeological Assessments), a Corner of the ‘Evangelical Triangle’” (8:20a - 20 min.) “Rolling theStones Away: The Publication of the Excavations at Tell-er-Ras” (10:40a - 15 min.) Alan Todd (Duke University), “A Vessel’s Import: Household Pottery, Ritual Purity Concerns, and Gentiles Jennifer Tobin (University of Illinois at Chicago), during the Time of the New Testament” (8:45a - 20 min.) “The Temple of Zeus on Tell-er-Ras: A Hypothetical Reconstruction” (11:00a - 15 min.) Kimberly Bauser (Boston College), “Khirbet Qana (Cana of Galilee): In Galilee and in the Gospel of John” (9:10a - 20 min.) Olin Storvick (Concordia College), “Field G Excavations of the Joint Expedition to Caesarea Maritima (JECM)” James Tabor (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), (11:20a - 15 min.) “A Reappraisal of Bargil Pixner’s Mt. Zion Theories: The ‘Church of the Apostles’ and the Essene Gate–Pres- Amy Yandek (Temple University), “Syncretism in Cae- ent Knowledge and Future Prospects” (9:35a - 20 min.) sarea: a Statue of Tyche/Demeter/Isis” (11:40a - 15 min.) Yardenna Alexandre (Israel Antiquities Authority), Michelle Cave (Temple University), “Analysis of “Pagans and Jews: The Hellenistic and Roman Villages Human Remains from Field C of Caesarea Maritima” at Cana of Galilee (Karm er-Ras)” (10:00a - 20 min.) (12:00p - 15 min.) Jeffrey A. Blakely (University of Wisconsin-Madison), A7 10:40am-12:45pm “Caesarea Maritima, 1917” (12:20p - 10 min.) Archaeology of the Near East: The Classical Periods Jennifer Gates-Foster (University of Texas - Austin), Presiding Martha K. Risser (Trinity College), Respondent (12:35p - 5 min.)

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Robert J. Bull (Drew University, Emeritus) ( 12:40p - 5 min..) Robert von Thaden (Mercyhurst College), “Embod- ied Minds in Physical Space: ‘Coming Together’ in A9 10:40am-12:45pm Paul’s Corinthian Community” (12:15p - 25 min.) The History of Archaeology Theme: This session examines the history of the disciplines A11 10:40am-12:45pm of Biblical Archaeology and Near Eastern Archaeology. Archaeology of Lebanon Rachel Hallote (Purchase College, SUNY), Presiding Theme: Reports on current excavations and surveys in Lebanon. Claude Doumet-Serhal (British Museum), Presiding Michelle Marcus (The Dalton School), Megan Cifarelli (Manhattanville College), andYelena Rakic (The Metropoli- Sarah Collins (British Museum), “Recent Results from tan Museum of Art), “The Hasanlu Personal Ornament the Excavations at Sidon, Lebanon” 10:40a( - 20 min.) Project: Considering the History of an Excavation at the Claude Doumet-Serhal Onset of a New Collaborative Project” 10:40a( - 20 min.) (British Museum), “Mortuary Prac- tices in Sidon in the Middle Bronze Age: A Reflection on Elena Corbett (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College), Sidonian Society in the Second Millennium B.C.” “Jerusalem, 1966: Understanding Jordan’s Nationalization (11:05a - 20 min.) of the Palestine Archaeological Museum” 11:05a( - 20 min.) Assaad Seif (Directorate General of Antiquities, Lebanon), Lisa Cooper (University of British Columbia), “Gertrude Bell “New Archaeological Discoveries in Beirut” as Near Eastern Archaeologist and Antiquarian” (11:30a - 20 min.) (11:30a - 20 min.) Elisabeth Wagner (Albert-Ludwigs University), Elvan Cobb (University of Pennsylvania),Theodore Van “Kamid el-Loz: Breaking Traditions–Creating the New” Loan (University of Pennsylvania), andVictoria Fleck (11:55a - 20 min.) (University of Pennsylvania), “Representing Vestiges Helene Sader (American University of Beirut), “News of the Past: Evaluating John Henry Haynes’ Contribu- tion to Nascent Archaeological Photography in the from Tell el-Burak, Lebanon. More on the Middle Bronze Age Palace and its Wall Paintings” ( 19th Century Ottoman Empire” (11:55a - 20 min.) 12:20p - 20 min.) Jennie Ebeling (University of Evansville), “The Problematic A12 10:40am-12:45pm Philistia and the Philistines During the Iron Age Portrayal of Ancient Daily Life in Early Excavation Reports” (12:20p- 20 min.) Aren M. Maeir (Bar-Ilan University) andJeffrey R. Chadwick (Brigham Young University), Presiding A10 10:40am-12:45pm Archaeology and the New Testament: Contexts and Texts II John Brug (Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary), “The Theme: These sessions offer the opportunity to explore ways in ‘Philistines’–What’s in a Name?” 10:40a( - 20 min.) which material culture studies can have a bearing on elucidat - Aren M. Maeir ing, analyzing and contextualizing New Testament images and (Bar-Ilan University), “The 2010 Season of Excavations at Tell es-Safi/Gath: Bronze themes and the transmission of New Testament texts. and Iron Age Remains” ( James Riley Strange (Samford University), Presiding 11:05a - 20 min.) Louise Hitchcock (University of Melbourne) and Liora Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) Kolska Horwitz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ted Carruth (Lipscomb University), “Early Christian Texts: “One Philistine’s Trash is an Archaeologist’s Treasure: Preliminary Assessment of the Philistine Remains in Moving from Notebooks to Sacred Scripture” 10:45a( - 25 min.) Area A2 at Tell es-Safi/Gath”11:30a ( - 20 min.) David Fiensy (Kentucky Christian University), “The Tenant Village of Qawarat bene Hassan in Western Samaria and Jeffrey R. Chadwick (Brigham Young University) and Eric L. Mark 12:1-11” (11:15a - 25 min.) Welch (Pennsylvania State University), “Early Philistine Settlement at Tell es-Safi/Gath – Iron Age I Evidence Bart Bruehler (Indiana Wesleyan University), “Finding a from Area F” (11:55a - 20 min.) Home for Zacchaeus: Archaeology and Imagination in theInterpretation of the New Testament Gospels” Ido Koch (Tel Aviv University), “From Lachish VI to (11:45a - 25 min.) Lachish IV–The Longue Durée of the Judahite Shephelah” (12:20p - 20 min.)

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12:45-2:00pm A15 2:00-4:05pm Archaeology and Biblical Studies Junior Scholars Luncheon Theme: This session is meant to explore the intersections A13 2:00-4:05pm between history, archaeology, and the Judeo-Christian Bible Archaeology of Cyprus and related texts. Theme: This session focuses on current archaeological Stephen Von Wyrick research in Cyprus from prehistory to the modern period. (University of Mary-Hardin Baylor), Presiding Erin Walcek Averett (Creighton University) and Elisabetta Cova (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Presiding Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.)

Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.) John S. Holladay, Jr. (University of Toronto), “Rethinking David’s Alliance with Achish, Seren of Gath (1 Sam. 27:1-12, Mara Horowitz (Alalakh Excavations/Koc University, 29:1-31)” (2:05p - 15 min.) Istanbul), “Monumental Architecture and Regional Development in Late Bronze I Cyprus: Phlamoudhi- Ariel M. Bagg (University of Leipzig), “Hezekiah’s Jerusa- Vounari and the Karpass Peninsula” (2:05p - 15 min.) lem: Nineveh in Judah?” (2:25p - 15 min.) Nathan Kayne Harper (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), Eric Smith (Nebraska Christian College), “Bow Imagery in “Gender, Kinship or Status?: Biological Relatedness the Ancient Near East and Genesis 9:8-17” (2:45p - 15 min.) Between Individuals with Modified and Unmodified Crania in Late Bronze Age Cyprus” (2:25p - 15 min.) Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), “Stamped Jar Handles as a Tool for Dating Babylonian and Achaemenid Archaeo- Dean Smith (University of Melbourne, Austra- logical Strata in Judah” (3:05p - 15 min.) lia), “Re-examining the Context and Meaning of Late Cypriot Wall Brackets” (2:45p - 15 min.) Omer Sergi (Tel Aviv University), Avshalom Karasik (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv David Hanssen (University at Albany, Albany, NY), University), and Oded Lipschits (Tel Aviv University), “The “Copper Production in Ancient Cyprus” (3:05p - 15 min.) Typology of the Royal Judean Storage Jars in its Historical Pamela Gaber (Lycoming College), “Recent Excavations Context” (3:25p - 15 min.) at Idalion, Cyprus” (3:25p - 15 min.) Mihai Vladimirescu (University of Craiova), “Archaeology Andrew McCarthy (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), and Biblical Studies in Romania in the Last Century” “Christendom in the Land of Aphrodite: Prastio-Mesorot- (3:45p - 15 min.) sos in Late Antique and Medieval Cyprus” (3:45p - 15 min.) A16 2:00-4:05pm A14 2:00-4:05pm Nabataean and Roman Arabia Archaeology of Egypt S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), Presiding Theme: Recent excavations and topical studies. Glenn Corbett (Independent Scholar), “A Landscape/GIS James K. Hoffmeier (Trinity International University), Presiding Perspective on the Thamudic Inscriptions and Rock Draw- ings of the Wadi Hafir, Southern Jordan” 2:00p( - 20 min.) Gregory Mumford (University of Alabama at Birming- ham), “Recent excavations at a late Old Kingdom (EB Judith McKenzie (Oxford University), Deirdre Barrett (Har- IV) fort at Ras Budran in South Sinai” (2:00p - 20 min.) vard University), Joe Greene (Harvard University), Margaret O’Hea (Adelaide University), Andres Reyes (Groton School), James K. Hoffmeier (Trinity International University), Wilma Wetterstrom (Harvard University), and Sarah Whitcher “Deities of the East Frontier in the Light of Recent Kansa (The Alexandria Archive Institute), “New Light on Excavations in North Sinai” (2:25p - 20 min.) the Nabataean Temple of Khirbet et-Tannur” Robyn Gillam (York University), “Landscape as a Concept (2:25p - 20 min.) in Egyptian Culture: Local, Generic or Cosmic?” M. Barbara Reeves (Queen’s University), “New Discoveries (2:50p - 20 min.) in the Nabataean Town and Roman Vicus at Hawara Jose Manuel alba Gómez (Universidad de Jaen, Spain), (Modern Humayma, Jordan)” (2:50p - 20 min.) “Olive Tree and Olive Oil in Ancient Egypt” (3:15p - 20 min.) S. Thomas Parker (North Carolina State University), “Coarse Joseph Weinstein (BBN Technologies), “Tjaru and the Ware Pottery of the First through Third Centuries at Roman Battle at the Reed Sea” (3:40p - 20 min.) Aila (Aqaba, Jordan): A Preliminary Analysis” (3:15p - 20 min.) 14 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Thursday

Abigail Turner (The University of Texas at Austin), “Agency Eric C. Kansa (University of California, Berkeley), Sarah and Ownership of Roman Imperial Roads in Provincia Whitcher Kansa (The Alexandria Archive Institute), Arabia” (3:40p - 20 min.) Matthew Vincent (Madaba Plains Project), Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion), andStephen Savage (Arizona A17 2:00-4:05pm State University), Discussants (2:20p) Prehistoric Archaeology April Nowell (University of Victoria), Presiding A19 4:20-6:25pm Archaeology of Jordan I: Bronze and Iron Ages Michael Bisson (McGill University) and April Nowell (Univer- Suzanne Richard (Gannon University), Presiding sity of Victoria), “Spatial Variation in Activities in the Late Acheulian of the Azraq District, Jordan” (2:00p - 20 min.) Steven Collins (Trinity Southwest University), “The Rise and Ruin of a Bronze Age City-State: Insights from the Thomas Strasser (Providence College), Eleni Panagopoulou 2009/2010 Excavations at Tall el-Hammam, Jordan” (Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology), and (4:20p - 20 min.) Curtis Runnels (Boston University), “The Paleolithic and Mesolithic Periods on Crete: Evidence from the Plakias Jesse Long (Lubbock Christian University) and Suzanne Survey” ((2:25p - 20 min.) Richard (Gannon University), “Expedition 2010 to Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan” (4:45p - 20 min.) Gary Rollefson (Whitman College), Yorke Rowan (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), Alexander Wasse Owen Chesnut (Andrews University), “The Middle Bronze (Independent Scholar), and Morag Kersel (DePaul Universi- Age at Tall Safut: To Glacis or Not to Glacis” ty), “Mr. Big: Honoring Leaders of Late Prehistoric Pastoral (5:10p - 20 min.) Societies in Jordan’s Eastern Badia” ((2:50p - 20 min.) Douglas R. Clark (La Sierra University) and Kent V. Bramlett Steve Rosen (Ben-Gurion University), Josef Plahkt (Ramon (La Sierra University), “The 2010 Season of Excavations of Science Center), Richard Macphail (University College the Madaba Plains Project at Tall al-‘Umayri, Jordan” London), S. Yan Landau (Volcani Institute), Elisabetta Boaretto (5:35p - 20 min.) (Weizmann Institute), Anna Babenko (Russian Academy of Sciences), and Bulat Khassanov (Russian Academy of Monique Vincent (University of Chicago), “The Early Iron Sciences), “Rockshelters in the Negev: Episodes of Pastoral I Egyptianizing Objects at Tall al-‘Umayri: Contexts and Exploitation and their Meaning for Understanding the Parallels” (6:00p - 20 min.) Long Term Archaeology of the Desert” (3:15p - 20 min.) A20 4:20-6:25pm Rami Arav (University of Nebraska at Omaha), “The Rogem Archaeology of Mesopotamia (Rujum) Hiri Enigma: Towards a Comprehensive Approach” Constance E. Gane (Andrews University), Presiding (3:40p - 20 min.) Introduction (4:20p - 5 min.) A18 2:00-4:05pm Publishing Archaeological Data from Philip Graham (University of Connecticut, Storrs), the Field to the Web (Workshop) “Archaeobotanical Investigations of Ubaid Period Kenan Eric C. Kansa (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding Tepe, Southeastern Turkey” (4:25p - 25 min.) Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.) Virginia Herrmann (University of Chicago), “The Assyrian Province of Sam’al and Household Archaeology at Zincirli Sarah Whitcher Kansa (The Alexandria Archive Institute), Höyük, Turkey” (4:55p - 25 min.) “Data Publication for a Competitive Edge in Grant Applications” (2:05p - 5 min.) Amy Barron (University of Toronto), “Late Assyrian Spear- heads: An Artifactual Insight into the Empire’s Military” Matthew Vincent (Madaba Plains Project), “iPods and (5:25p - 25 min.) Archaeology: In Field Data Entry at Tall al-’Umayri and Tall Jalul” (2:05p - 5 min.) Stephanie Rost (Stony Brook University), “A Study of Tradi- tional Irrigation Practices in South Iraq Under Archaeologi- Eric C. Kansa (University of California, Berkeley), “Practical cal and Philological Considerations” (5:55p - 25 min.) Guidelines for Archaeologists: A ‘How To’ for Publishing Research Content on the Web” (2:05p - 5 min.)

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A21 4:20-6:25pm Introduction (4:20p - 5 min.) Christianity and Judaism in Late Antiquity: Robert Bates (La Sierra University), “Archaeology and the Cultures, Connections, and Contrasts Undergraduate: Turning a ‘Cautionary Tale’ into a ‘Success Steven H. Werlin (University of North Carolina at Story’” (4:25p - 15 min.) Chapel Hill) and Carrie Duncan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Presiding Leigh-Ann Bedal (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College), “Teaching Anthropology: Applying a Holistic Approach Mark Wilson (Regent University) and Nadin Burkardt in a Room Full of Square Pegs” (4:45p - 15 min.) (University of Frankfurt), “The Late Antique Synagogue Stefanie Elkins (Andrews University), “Educating Future at Priene, Turkey” (4:20p - 20 min.) Archaeologists: How to Reach ‘Generation Y’ in the Robert Schick (ACOR), “Byzantine-Period Christians Classroom” (5:05p - 15 min.) at Humayma, Jordan” (4:45p - 20 min.) Rachel Hallote (Purchase College SUNY), “Presenting the Mordechai Aviam (Institute for Galilean Archaeology, Bible and ‘Biblical Archaeology’ to Undergraduates in Kinneret College) and Aharoni Amitai (Institute for Galilean the 21st Century: Too Much or Too Little Information?” Archaeology, Kinneret College), “The Cemetery of the (5:25p - 15 min.) ‘Rabbis’ at Sepphoris” (5:10p - 20 min.) Elaine Sullivan (University of California, Los Angeles), Juhana Markus Saukkonen (University of Helsinki), “The Old (World) and New (Technologies): Teaching “Use of Space in Jewish and Non-Jewish Households” Archaeology in the Age of Google” (5:45p - 15 min.) (5:35p - 20 min.) Lisa Kahn (University of Maryland University College), Jonathan D. Lawrence (Canisius College), “Elijah–The Man, “Teaching Archaeology Online and in Your Own Voice” The Myth, The Music?” (6:00p - 20 min.) (6:05p - 15 min.)

A22 4:20-6:25pm A24 4:20-6:25pm Archaeology of Gender Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Fortified City in Judah Beth Alpert Nakhai (The University of Arizona), Presiding from the Time of King David Yosef Garfinkel(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Diane Bolger (University of Edinburgh), “Were They All Michael G. Hasel (Southern Adventist University), Presiding Women? Gender and Pottery Production in Prehistoric Cyprus” (4:20p - 20 min.) Introduction (4:20p - 5 min.) Gay Robins (Emory University), “How Were Elite Men in Yosef Garfinkel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), New Kingdom Egypt Ideally Expected to Behave?” “Khirbet Qeiyafa after Four Seasons of Excavations” (4:45p - 20 min.) (4:25p - 25 min.) Amy Gansell (Emory University), “Royal Tomb Assemblages Hoo-Goo Kang (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), of Feminine Beauty at Nimrud” (5:10p - 20 min.) “Finger-Impressed Jar Handles Found at Khirbet Qeiyafa: A Symbol of Administration in the Early 10th century B.C.E.” Nancy Serwint (Arizona State University), “Aphrodite in (4:55p - 25 min.) Cyprus and Her Debt to the Near East” (5:35p - 20 min.) Yoav Farhi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Stephanie Langin-Hooper (University of California, Berke- “Numismatic and Other Small Finds from Khirbet Qeiyafa: ley) and Laurie Pearce (University of California, Berkeley), A Glimpse into the Late Persian-Early Hellenistic Period” “Greek and/or Babylonian? Maternal-Line Names and (5:25p - 25 min.) Multicultural Identities in Hellenistic Uruk” (6:00p - 20 min.) Michael G. Hasel (Southern Adventist University), “Area D: Excavations South of the Western Gate” (5:55p - 25 min.) A23 4:20-6:25pm Teaching Archaeology to Undergraduates: Success Stories and Cautionary Tales Ellen Bedell (The Ellis School) and Eric H. Cline (The George Washington University), Presiding 16 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Thursday & Friday

A25 7:00-9:20pm Friday, November 19 Reconstructing Ancient (Biblical) Israel: The Exact and Life Science Perspective. An Atlanta 2010 Update A26 8:20-10:25am Theme: The aim of the session is to offer the preliminary results Archaeology of Islamic Society II of the “Reconstructing Ancient Israel” project, which deploys ten Theme: This is one of two sessions devoted to the archaeology exact and life science tracks in order to answer questions regard- of Islamic societies, highlighting new methods and approaches. ing the time, genesis, life, mind, and identity of ancient Israel. Session Two presents the results of recent fieldwork. Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University) and Steve Weiner Bert DeVries (Calvin College), Presiding (Weizmann Institute of Science), Presiding Introduction (8:20a - 5 min.) Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University), “Opening Remarks: Micro Archaeology and Macro History In Reconstructing Katia Cytryn-Silverman (The Hebrew University of Ancient (Biblical) Israel” (7:00p - 5 min.) Jerusalem), “The New Tiberias Excavation Project” (8:25a - 25 min.) Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University) and Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv University), “Macro Archaeology and Micro Ar- Bethany J. Walker (Missouri State University) and Øystein S. chaeology: ‘Izbet Sartah as a Case Study” (7:05p - 15 min.) LaBianca (Andrews University), “Deconstructing the qasr on Tall Hisban: Highlights from the 2010 Season” Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University) and Frank Neumann (8:55a - 25 min.) (University of the Witwatersrand), “The Paleo-Climatic History of the Middle Bronze-Iron Age Time Interval: Taufik Dea’dle (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and High-Resolution Pollen Study of Dead Sea Cores” Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University), “Khan el-Hillu and the (7:20p - 15 min.) City of a-Lid (Lod) During the Ottoman Period: Sum- marizing Three Years of Excavations” (9:25a - 25 min.) Elisabetta Boaretto (Bar-Ilan University) and Michael Toffolo (Weizmann Institute of Science), “Radiocarbon Dating and Daniel Mahoney (University of Chicago), “A Tribal Relative Chronologies in the Eastern Mediterranean” Landscape: Islamic Sites of the Dhamar Basin in the (7:35p - 15 min.) Central Highlands of Yemen” (9:55a - 25 min.) Dvora Namder (Weizmann Institute of Science and Tel Aviv A27 8:20-10:25am University) and Yuval Gadot (Tel Aviv University), “Can Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches Cultic Activities Be Tracked? Residue Analysis of Iron IIA to the Near East I Chalices in Philistine and Philistine-Related Sites” Theme: People, space, and systems. (7:50p - 15 min.) Louise Hitchcock (University of Melbourne), Presiding

Elena Zapassky (Tel Aviv University) and Itzhak Benenson Roxana Flammini (Argentine Catholic University), “World- (Tel Aviv University), “Ancient Mathematics of Trade: Systems Theory and the Nilotic-Levantine Network The ‘Torpedo’ Store-Jars from the Ashkelon Shipwreck” in the Early 2nd Millennium B.C.” (8:20a - 20 min.) (8:05p - 15 min.) Amanda Rose (University of Melbourne), “In- Arie Shaus (Tel Aviv University), “Iron Age Epigraphy, terpreting the Wine Dark Sea: East Mediterra- Facsimile Evaluation: The Naked Eye Versus Automatic nean Maritime Symbolism” (8:45a - 20 min.) Quality Assessment” (8:20p - 15 min.) Zuzana Chovanec (University at Albany), “The Ideology of Adi Eliyahu-Behar (Weizmann Institute of Science and Space and the Built Environment: Syntactic Analysis of Pre- Tel Aviv University), “Iron Production in the Iron Age of historic Bronze Age Settlements in Cyprus” (9:10a - 20 min.) Israel–Preliminary Results from Hazor” (8:35p - 15 min.) Hilary Gopnik (Emory University), “Right Good Men? Naama Yahalom-Mack (Weizmann Institute of Science and Median Society in the 9th to 7th Centuries B.C.E.” Tel Aviv University), “Bronze in the Age of Iron–Prelimi- (9:35a - 20 min.) nary Results” (8:50p - 15 min.) Emily Miller Bonney (California State University at Steve Weiner (Weizmann Institute of Science) and Aren Maeir Fullerton), “Making the Case for Cultural Diver- (Bar-Ilan University), “Microarchaeology: Beyond sity on Early Bronze Age Crete” (10:00a - 20 min.) the Visual Archaeological Record” (9:05p - 5 Min.)

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A28 8:20-10:25am Oded Borowski (Emory University), “Life and Death “Figuring Out” the Figurines of the Ancient Near East at Tell Halif, Israel: Lahav Research Project, Phase Theme: This session will focus on the research and analysis of ter- IV Excavations 2007-2009” (9:25a - 15 min.) racotta figurines from across all regions, sites, and time periods Gwyn Davies (Florida International University) and in the Ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. New Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel perspectives, interdisciplinary dialogue, and cross-cultural Hill), “The Late Roman Fort at Yotvata: A Valentinianic comparisons within figurine studies will be encouraged. Foundation?” (9:45a - 15 min.) Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper (University of California, Berkeley), Presiding Carolina Aznar (St. Louis University, Madrid Campus), Shalom Yankelevitz (The University of Haifa), and Michal Introduction (8:20a - 5 min.) Artzy (The University of Haifa), “The Southern Plain of Schmitt Ruediger (University of Muenster), “Animal Figu- Akko Project: The 2010 Season Preliminary Results” rines as Ritual Media in Ancient Israel” (8:25a - 15 min.) (10:05a - 15 min.) Christopher A. Tuttle (American Center of Oriental A30 8:20-10:25am Research, Jordan), “Nabataean Camels & Horses in Technology in Archaeology Daily Life: The Coroplastic Evidence” (8:45a - 15 min.) Stephen H. Savage (Arizona State University), Presiding Erin Darby (Duke University), “Seeing Double: Viewing Sidney Rempel (Arizona State University) and Christopher and Re-viewing Judean Pillar Figurines through Sevara (University of Gothenburg), “Geospatial Data Modern Eyes” (9:05a - 15 min.) Acquisition and Management in Archaeology: Under- standing Capabilities and Limitations” (8:20a - 20 min.) Adi Erlich (University of Haifa), “The Emergence of Enthroned Females in Hellenistic Terracottas from Israel: Jessie Pincus (Texas A&M University), “Geophysical Cyprus, Asia Minor, and Canaanite Connections” Surveying, Mapping, and Investigation: Jerusalem (9:25a - 15 min.) Underground Project” (8:45a - 20 min.) P. M. Michele Daviau (Wilfrid Laurier University), “The Brandon Olson (Penn State University), Ann E. Killebrew Coroplastic Traditions of Transjordan” (9:45a - 15 min.) (Penn State University), and Carrie Hritz (Penn State University), “A Spatial Analysis of Settlement at Rick Hauser (International Institute for Mesopotamian Area Dağılbaz Höyük (Cilicia, Turkey)” (9:10a - 20 min.) Studies), “Reading Figurines: Animal Representations in Terra Cotta from Urkesh, the First Hurrian Capital Paul Newson (American University of Beirut), (2450 B.C.E.)” (10:05a - 15 min.) “New Landscape, New Identity: The Roman Possession of Interior Syria” (9:35a - 20 min.) A29 8:20-10:25am Reports on Current Excavations and Surveys, ASOR-Affiliated Jennifer Pournelle (University of South Carolina), Theme: New developments from recent project activity. “Traces on the ‘Ubaidian Shore: Mid-Holocene Eusta- M. L. Pruitt (University of California, Berkeley and sis and Marine Transgression” (10:00a - 20 min.) The Graduate Theological Union), Presiding A31 10:40am-12:45pm Introduction (8:20a - 5 min.) Settlement and Society in the Ancient Near East I Jason A. Ur (Harvard University), Presiding Yorke Rowan (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) and Morag Kersel (DePaul University), “Marj Rabba: Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) Excavation of a Chalcolithic Settlement in the Galilee” (8:25a - 15 min.) Emily Hammer (Harvard University), “Ethnography and Archaeology of Nomadic Pastoral Winter Camping Pat- Karen Borstad (Independent Scholar), Raid al Baqain (Univer- terns Along the Tigris River, SE Turkey” (10:45a - 25 min.) sity of Hohenheim), and Jihad Haroun (Department of An- tiquities, Jordan), “Road Survey on the Karak Plateau: New Carrie Hritz (Penn State University), “Settlment systems and 11:10a - Data for the Region’s Travel Networks” (8:45a - 15 min.) Sustainability in the Balikh Valley, Syria” ( 25 min.) Ann E. Killebrew (Pennsylvania State University), “The Paul Zimmerman (Independent Scholar), “Settlement Mopsos Survey 2004-2010: Settlement and Landscape Patterns in Yemen’s Interior and Their Implications for 11:40a - in the Bay of Iskenderun, Turkey” (9:05a - 15 min.) Regional Political and Economic History” ( 25 min.) 18 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Friday

Fevzi Kemal Moetz (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel), Boaz Gross (Tel Aviv University) and Yuval Goren “Settlement Behavior in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Tel Aviv University), “The Provenience of the Judahite of Upper Mesopotamia” (12:15p - 25 min.) Lion Stamped Jar Handle” (12:05p - 15 min.)

A32 10:40am-12:45pm Keren Ras (Tel Aviv University), “Settlement Patterns in Sepphoris in Recent Research Northern Palestine–Independent Kingdom vs. Imperial Theme: Discoveries and subsequent analysis of materials from Province” (12:25p - 15 min.) over twenty five years of excavation at Sepphoris have led to A34 10:40am-12:45pm conclusions with important implications for the study of Roman Death and Burial and Byzantine Palestine. This session aims to present some of the Theme: Explores the integration of anthropological approaches recent developments in research on the site itself and on its to mortuary analysis with more traditional Near Eastern Studies material culture. interest in burial, funerary ritual, and mortuary cult. Eric Meyers (Duke University), Carol Meyers (Duke University), Helen Dixon (University of Michigan), Presiding and James F. Strange (University of South Florida), Presiding John O’Shea (University of Michigan), “Death and Burial Carol Meyers (Duke University), “Ground Stone Tools and in the Near East: Putting ‘Rigor’ into the Study of Death Gender: The Evidence from Sepphoris” (10:40a - 20 min.) Rituals” (10:40a - 20 min.) Eric Meyers (Duke University), “Ceramics, Coins, Eliot Braun (W. F. Albright School of Archaeological Re- and Chronology at Sepphoris” (11:05a - 20 min.) search), “Reflections on Burial Customs of Two Local Zeev Weiss (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Populations of the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age I Peri- “The 363 C.E. Earthquake Revisited: The Evidence for ods in the Southern Levant” (11:05a - 20 min.) Roman Sepphoris” (11:30a - 20 min.) Mariusz Gorniak (Jagiellonian University), “Bronze Age David Adan-Bayewitz (Bar-Ilan University), Sepulchral Archaeology in Jordan” (11:30a - 20 min.) “Roman Sepphoris: Archaeological/Analytical Re- Sarah Janes (University of Glasgow), “Waking the Dead: search on Context and Character” (11:55a - 20 min.) Approaches to the Disparate Mortuary Record of Early James F. Strange (University of South Florida), Iron Age Cyprus” (11:55a - 20 min.) “Archaeology, Hellenism, and Two Case Studies: Sepphoris Brien Garnand (Whitman College), “Infant Cremations at and Nazareth” (12:20p - 20 min.) the Carthaginian Tophet” (12:20p - 20 min.)

A33 10:40am-12:45pm A35 10:40am-12:45pm Hebrew Bible, History, and Archaeology Community-Based Practice and Collaboration Theme: This session presents discussions of the intersection of in Near Eastern Archaeology archaeology with the Hebrew Bible and historical reconstruction. Theme: This session’s goal is to highlight productive community- Daniel C. Browning, Jr. (William Carey University), Presiding based and collaborative research practices in Near Eastern archae- ology. This year’s geographic focus is on Jordan and Cyprus. Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) Jane Peterson (Marquette University), Presiding Anson F. Rainey (Tel Aviv University), “The Gezer–Jerusalem Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) Conflict in the Amarna Correspondence” 10:45a( - 15 min.) Alison Damick (Council for British Research in the Levant, Craig Tyson (University of Michigan), “Did Nebuchadnez- Amman), “Identifying Communities, Practice, and zar Destroy the Ammonites in 582 B.C.E.? Or, What Does Methodology: Problems and Advances in Collaborative Josephus Know about Nebuchadnezzar?” (11:05a - 15 min.) Archaeology in Azraq, Jordan” (10:45a - 15 min.) Peter Feinman (Institute of History, Archaeology, and Alan Simmons (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Education, Purchase, NY), “The Mesha Stele: Underutilized Mohammad Najjar (Jordan’s Landscape Tours, Jordan), Key to Understanding Israelite History and the Writing of “Joint Custody: An Archaeological Park at Neolithic the Bible” (11:25a - 15 min.) Ghwair I, Jordan” (11:05a - 15 min.) Shirly Ben-Dor Evian (Tel Aviv University), “The Archaeol- Bert de Vries (Calvin College) and Paul Christians (Open ogy of Sheshonq I in the Levant” (11:45a - 15 min.) Hand Studios), “Community and Archaeology at Umm

el-Jimal Jordan: A Strategy for Revitalization of a Dead Site” (11:25a - 15 min.) ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 19 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Friday

Øystein LaBianca (Andrews University), “The Tall Hisban Fred Horton (Wake Forest University), “Survival in Style: Cultural Heritage Project: Some Reflections on Local The Fate of the Field E Bath at Caesarea” (2:50p - 20 min.) Capacity Building and Stakeholdership” (11:45a - 15 min.) Peter Lampinen (Combined Caesarea Expeditions), P. Nick Kardulias (College of Wooster), Michael K. Toumazou “Transition-Period Numismatics and the Geogra- (Davidson College), and Derek B. Counts (University of phy of Post-Conquest Caesarea” (3:15p - 20 min.) Wisconsin-Milwaukee), “Archaeology and the Structure of Community Relations in Athienou, Cyprus” Jennifer Stabler (Maryland-National Capital Park and (12:05p - 15 min.) Planning Commission), “Reuse and Recycling in Early Islamic Caesarea: A Contrast between East and West” Gary O. Rollefson (Whitman College), Discussant (12:25p) (3:40p - 20 min.)

A38 2:00-4:05 pm 12:45-2:00pm Myth, History, and Archaeology ASOR Brown Bag Roundtables Theme: This session is devoted to exploring issues of mythography and historiography in the ancient Near East. A36 2:00-4:05 pm Eric Smith (Nebraska Christian College), Presiding Settlement and Society in the Ancient Near East II Jesse Casana (University of Arkansas), Presiding John Walton (Wheaton College), “The Poetics of Myth and History in Light of Speech-Act Theory” (2:00p - 20 min.) Eric Rupley (University of Michigan), “Addressing ‘Connec- Richard Averbeck (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), tivity’ with Archaeological Survey: A Case Study Using The “Mythology as Analogical Thinking in Ancient Near Late Chalcolithic Settlement Pattern Eastern History and Archaeology” (2:25p - 20 min.) Around Tell Brak, Syria” (2:00p - 20 min.) Scott Booth (Trinity International University), Hannah Lau (University of California, Los Angeles), “Regnal Formulas and Literary Competence:Learning “Reading Between the Lines: Assessing Agropastoral to Read the Book of Kings One Step at a Time” (2:50p - 20 min.) Strategies of the Early Bronze Age in the Upper Khabur Basin” (2:25p - 20 min.) Piotr Michalowski (University of Michigan), Tuna Kalayci (University of Arkansas), “Empiri- “Interpretation and its Discontents: Reading Ancient cal Data Structure of Early Bronze Age Settlement Mesopotamian Images and Texts” (3:15p - 20 min.) Patterns in North Syria” (2:50p - 20 min.) Cory Crawford (Brigham Young University), Noam Rifkind (Boston University), “Survey and Settle- “‘Bringing Joy to the Great Lady’: Object and Agency ment in the Tell es-Sweyhat Embayment in the Achaeme- in the Ancient Levant” (3:40p - 20 min.) nid, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods” (3:15p - 20 min.) A39 2:00-4:05 pm Tate Paulette (University of Chicago), Communication and Power in Mesopotamian Civilizations “Grain Storage in Third Millennium Mesopotamia: Theme: Increased attention has been paid by Assyriologists to Regional Perspectives” (3:40p - 20 min.) communication as related to political economy, civil society, and ideology. Previously, questions about the paths, forms, A37 2:00-4:05 pm and boundedness of communication had been approached within Caesarea Maritima: The Byzantine-Islamic Transition disciplinary traditions. This panel will examine communication Theme: Caesarea fell to the Arabs in 640 or 641 C.E. These as an interdisciplinary matter and as the creative engine of papers study the economy and culture of Caesarea during the social power. transition period 400-900 C.E. Seth Richardson (University of Chicago) and Steven Garfinkle Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), Presiding (Western Washington University), Presiding

Moshe Fischer (Tel Aviv University), “The Fate of Classical Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.) Art and Architecture in Byzantine Palestine: Caesarea Maritima as a Case Study” (2:00p - 20 min.) Alexandra Kleinerman (Cornell University), “The Sumerian Pedagogical Corpora and the Epistolary Genre” Kenneth G. Holum (University of Maryland), “ (2:05p - 25 min.) Amphoras and the Caesarea Economy in the Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries” (2:25p - 20 min.)

20 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Friday & Saturday

Edward Stratford (Brigham Young University), Celia Bergoffen (Fashion Institute of Technology), “Communication as Practice in the Old Assyrian “Symbolic Consumption: Imported Vessels in Correspondence” (2:35p - 25 min.) Mortuary Rites” (8:45a - 20 min.) Alan Lenzi (University of the Pacific), Joanna Smith (Princeton University), “An Idea in a Thing? “Advertising Secrecy, Creating Power” (3:05p - 25 min.) Seal Carving in Late Bronze Age Cyprus” (9:10a - 20 min.) Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Berkeley), Marie Hopwood (DePauw University), “The Burnt Pot: “Power and Canon in Cuneiform Scribal Scholarship” An Ethnoarchaeological Experiment” (9:35a - 20 min.) (3:35p - 25 min.) Andrea Creel (University of California, Berkeley), A40 2:00-4:05 pm “The Sense of Ritual in Votive Deposition at Kuntillet Archaeology of the Near East: Bronze and Iron Ages, I ‘Ajrûd and the Southern Levant” (10:00a - 20 min.) Britt Hartenberger (Western Michigan University), Presiding A42 8:20-10:25am Ezra Marcus (University of Haifa), “The Painted Pottery of Archaeology of Jordan II: Roman Period the Early Middle Bronze Age from Tel Ifshar, Israel” Leigh-Ann Bedal (2:00p - 20 min.) (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College), Presiding

Vincent van Exel (University of Chicago), “Schematic Stone Susan Ellis (Wayne State College), “Sisters Through Time: Statues and the Identification of Deified Ancestors” Iron Age and Roman Figurines from Abila in Jordan” (2:25p - 20 min.) (8:20a - 20 min.) Catherine Duff (University of Toronto), “Ceramic Continuity and Change at Shechem (Tell Balatâh): Moawiyah Ibrahim (Society of Friends of Archaeology Assessing the Impact of Egyptian Imperialism in and Heritage, Jordan), “Sahab During the Iron Ages” the Central Hill Country” (2:50p - 20 min.) (8:45a - 20 min.) Krystal V. Lords (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA), Debra Foran (University of Toronto), “‘And I Built Mad- “The Egyptian/ized Pottery Assemblage from Jaffa: Form aba’¬–Mesha’s 9th Century Reconstruction: Evidence and Function in Relation to Aspects of Cultural Identity” from the City’s West Acropolis” (9:10a - 20 min.) (3:15p - 20 min.) Aaron Brody (Pacific School of Religion), “Transjordanian Inbal Samet (University of Haifa), “Late Bronze Age Commerce with Northern Judah in the Iron IIC¬–Early Canaanite Rulership at Megiddo: An Introspective View” Persian Period: Ceramic Indicators, Interregional Interac- (3:40p - 20 min.) tion, and Marketing at Tell en-Nasbeh” (9:35a - 20 min.)

4:20-6:25pm Jonathan Ferguson (University of Toronto), “Excava- tions on the West Acropolis of Tell Madaba, Jordan: ASOR Members Meeting An Occupational History of the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods” (10:00a - 20 min.)

Saturday, November 20 A43 8:20-10:25am Archaeology of Anatolia II: A41 8:20-10:25am Material Culture in the Anatolian Landscape Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches Theme: Papers will offer overviews, recent discoveries, and data to the Near East II analysis pertaining to material culture and how it can inform Theme: Creation, consumption, and transformation. archaeologists regarding ancient social, economic, and politi- Andrew McCarthy (University of Edinburgh), Presiding cal structures not only on the micro/site specific but also at the macro/landscape level. Jennifer C. Ross (Hood College), Presiding

David Collard (University of Nottingham), “Tombs, Tem- Nicola Laneri (Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente), ples, and Transcendence: Altered States of Consciousness “Materializing a Religious Belief: The Case of Hirbemerdon and Bronze Age Cypriote Ritual Practice” (8:20a - 20 min.) Tepe in SE Turkey during the Middle Bronze Age” (8:20a - 20 min.) ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 21 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Saturday

Levent Atici (University of Nevada), “Patterns of Cheryl Ward (Coastal Carolina University), “What the Animal Exploitation and Sociopolitical Organization: New Discoveries Mean: Approaching Bronze Age Sea- Animal Bones from Kültepe/Kanesh and Kaman- faring from an Egyptian Perspective” (8:45a - 15 min.) Kalehöyük, Central Anatolia” (8:45a - 20 min.) Caroline Sauvage (Archéorient–Maison de l’Orient et de Lynn Swartz Dodd (University of Southern California), la Méditerranée), “The Status of Late Bronze Age Ships “Continuity in Craft Traditions and Landscapes of Political within Eastern Mediterranean Societies” (9:05a - 15 min.) Change during the Second Millennium B.C.E.” Harun Özdaş (Dokuz Eylül University) and Elizabeth S. (9:10a - 20 min.) Greene (Brock University), “Patterns of Early Trade: The Çigdem Maner (Koç University), “Traveling Ideas and 2010 Archaic Shipwreck Survey in Turkey” (9:25a - 15 min.) Technologies: A Comparison of Mycenaean and Hittite Veronica Morriss (Texas A&M University), “In Search of Fortification Architecture” 9:35a( - 20 min.) the Greco-Roman Harbor of Thmuis” (9:45a - 15 min.) Joseph Lehner (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, Justin Leidwanger (University of Pennsylvania), “Mari- UCLA), “Towards an Understanding of Metal-Based time Landscape and Roman Economic Regionalism in the Economy during the Iron Age in Central Anatolia: Gulf of Gökova, Southwest Turkey” (10:05a - 15 min.) A View from Kerkenes Dağ” (10:00a - 20 min.) A46 10:40am-12:45pm A44 8:20-10:25am Warfare, Empire, and Society in the Ancient Near East I Bioarchaeology of the Near East Theme: This session addresses issues of the archaeology of war- Megan A. Perry (East Carolina University), Presiding fare, its relationship to the building and management of empires, and its effects on state and society in the ancient Near East and Roy King (Stanford University), Peter Underhill eastern Mediterranean from c. 4000 B.C. to A.D. 400. (Stanford University), and Jacques Chiaroni Aaron Burke (University of California), Presiding (University of the Mediterranean), “The Southern Levant and the Mediterranean: Genetic Studies of Recurrent Aaron Burke (University of California) and William Zimmerle Prehistoric and Historic Migrations” (8:20a - 20 min.) (University of Pennsylvania), “A Prospectus for the Study of Warfare and Empire and their Impact on the Ancient Jennifer Luedtke (SUNY Binghamton), “Molecular Char- Near East: Introductory Remarks for a New Session” acterization of Tall Šēh Hamad, Syria” (8:45a - 20 min.) (10:40a - 20 min.) Lesley Gregoricka (The Ohio State University) and Margaret Bradley Parker (University of Utah), “Neo-Assyrian Power Judd (University of Pittsburgh), “Isotopic Evidence for and the Use of Force” (11:05a - 20 min.) Diet among the Bedouins of Khirbat al-Mudayna, Jordan” (9:10a - 20 min.) Lauren Ristvet (University of Pennsylvania), “Resisting Em- Jessica Kaiser (University of California, Berkeley), pire: Iron Age Fortifications in the Caucasus” 11:30a( - 20 min.) “Bioarchaeology of the Wall of the Crow Cemetery in Kyle Keimer (University of California, Los Angeles), Giza, Egypt” (9:35a - 20 min.) “Assessing Hezekiah’s Military Preparations for Rebellion” Megan A. Perry (East Carolina University) and R. T. (11:55a - 20 min.) Montgomery (University of Arkansas), “Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma in Five Individuals from 8th-10th cen- Deborah Cantrell (Vanderbilt University), “Mounted Combat tury A.D. Qasr al-Hallabat, Jordan” (10:10a - 20 min.) in Iron Age Warfare” (12:20p - 20 min.)

A45 8:20-10:25am A47 10:40am-12:45pm Maritime Archaeology Archaeology of the Natural Environment: Archaeobotany Theme: This session focuses on the archaeological investigation and Zooarchaeology in the Near East of maritime activity ranging broadly from seafaring and trade to Jennifer Ramsay (The College at Brockport, SUNY) and ship construction and harbors. Alexia Smith (University of Connecticut), Presiding Justin Leidwanger (University of Pennsylvania), Presiding Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) Introduction (8:20a - 5 min.) Austin Hill (University of Connecticut) and Philip J. Graham Shelley Wachsmann (Texas A&M University), (University of Connecticut), “A Case of Surplus Production: “Ahhotep’s Silver Ship Model” (8:25a - 15 min.) Subsistence at Chalcolithic Tel Tsaf, Israel” (10:40a - 15 min.)

22 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Saturday

Mairi M. Capper (Simon Fraser University), “The Palaeoeth- A49 10:40am-12:45pm nobotanical Remains from Tell Tayinat” (11:05a - 15 min.) Archaeology of Lebanon II David Lipovitch (University of Toronto), “A Preliminary Jessica L. Nitschke (Georgetown University), Presiding Report on the Faunal Remains from the 2004–2009 Ex- Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) cavations at Tell Ta’yinat, Turkey” (11:25a - 15 min.) Marlies Heinz (University of Freiburg), “Kamid el-Loz: Natalie Mueller (The College at Brockport SUNY) and The Life of the Dead” (10:45a - 25 min.) Jennifer Ramsay (The College at Brockport SUNY), “Tell- ing Seeds: A Preliminary Investigation of Botanical Re- Alan Ogden (University of Bradford), Claude Doumet- mains from Tall al-‘Umayri, Jordan” (11:45a - 15 min.) Serhal (British Museum), Helen Hofbauer (University of Edward Maher (The Field Museum), “Bones Like Bradford), Katie Keefe (University of Bradford), Richard ‘Beams’ of Bronze: Fauna from the Kaplan Ex- Mikulski (University of Bradford), Ronika Power (Uni- cavations at Jaffa” (12:05p - 15 min.) versity of Bradford), and Holger Schutkowski (Univer- sity of Bradford), “Human Remains from Twelve Years Deirdre Fulton (Pennsylvania State University) and of Excavation in Sidon, Lebanon” (11:15a - 25 min.) Brian Hesse (Pennsylvania State University), “Looking at Carcasses: Sheep and Goats at Carthage, Tunisia, and Jwana Chahoud (Archéorient, University of Lyon 2), Al Qisha, Yemen” (12:25p - 15 min.) “Animal Offerings from Recent Middle Bronze Age Burials in Sidon, Lebanon” (11:45a - 25 min.) A48 10:40am-12:45pm Archaeology of the Near East: Bronze and Iron Ages, II Maria Eugenia Aubet (Pompeu Fabra University), “The Cemetery of Tyre-Al Bass: Mortuary Practices, Rudolph H. Dornemann (ASOR), Presiding Rituals, and the Ancestors” (12:15p - 25 min.) Introduction (10:40a - 5 min.) A50 10:40am-12:45pm Cristian Rata (Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology), Ancient Inscriptions: Recent Discoveries, “The Late Bronze Age in Canaan: A Reevaluation” New Editions, New Readings (10:45a - 15 min.) Christopher A. Rollston (Emmanuel School of Religion) and Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University), Presiding Erez Ben-Yosef (University of California, San Diego), Ron Shaar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Lisa James Rappai (Society for Awareness Generation & Educa- Tauxe (University of California, San Diego), Hagai Ron tion), “Proposing a New Reconstruction Geography of (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Amotz Agnon the Holy Land” (10:40a - 20 min.) (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Thomas Levy (University of California, San Diego), “Timna Annlee Dolan (San Joaquin Delta College), “The Use of the 30 Revisited: High Resolution Dating Indicates In- Demonstrative Pronoun in the Byblian Dialect of Phoenician: tense Iron Age (11th - 9th c. B.C.E.) Copper Produc- An Essay in Honor of J. Brian Peckham” tion in the Southern Negev” (11:05a - 15 min.) (11:05a - 20 min.) Britt Hartenberger (Western Michigan University), Nicole Brisch (University of Cambridge), “Offerings for “The Symbolic Role of Ground Stone in Bronze and Iron Divine and Royal Statues in the Old Babylonian Period” Age Syro-Anatolia: Developments within Urban Societies” (11:30a - 20 min.) (11:25a - 15 min.) Annalisa Azzoni (Vanderbilt University), “Aramaic at Christopher J. Davey (La Trobe University), “Ancient Persepolis” (11:55a - 20 min.) Near Eastern Pot Bellows: Assessing New Evidence” Lawson Younger (Trinity International University Divinity (11:45a - 15 min.) School), “Some Epigraphic Comments on the New KTMW R. Gareth Roberts (University of Oxford), “Egypt, Philistines, Inscription from Zincirli” (12:20p - 20 min.) and the Bias of Hindsight” (12:05p - 15 min.) 12:45pm-2:00pm Daniel A. Frese (University of California, San Diego), “Gate Superstructures in the Iron II Period: A Functional Projects on Parade Poster Session Explanation” (12:25p - 15 min.)

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A51 2:00-4:05pm Andrew Lawler (Science Magazine), “Tracking the Loot¬ Warfare, Empire, and Society in the Ancient Near East II Perils and Possibilities in Covering Cultural Heritage” Theme: This session addresses issues of the archaeology of war- (2:30p - 15 min.) fare, its relationship to the building and management of empires, Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen (Association of the National and its effects on state and society in the ancient Near East and Committees of the Blue Shield, The Hague), “Cultural eastern Mediterranean from c. 4000 B.C. to A.D. 400 Heritage in Conflict: The Role of NGOs and Their William Zimmerle (University of Pennsylvania), Presiding Interaction with the Media” (2:50p - 15 min.) Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.) Break (3:10p - 5 min.) Clemens Reichel (University of Toronto), “Warfare Is As Old Friedrich T. Schipper (University of Vienna), “Protecting As…? The Archaeology of Conflict in Northern Syria and Heritage in War-Zones and the Role of the Media: Southeastern Anatolia (5000–3000 B.C.)” (2:05p - 15 min.) Towards a New Cooperation” (3:15p - 5 min.) Tracy Musacchio (John Jay College, CUNY), “Egypt Discussion (3:20p - 45 min.) at War against Itself: Warfare in the First Interme- diate Period, c. 2100 B.C.E.” (2:25p - 15 min.) A53 2:00-4:05pm Joe Uziel (W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Tayinat Archaeological Project: Research), “The MB-LB Transition and the Role of Egypt’s Recent Investigations in the ‘Land of Palistin’ New Kingdom in Forming Southern Levantine Culture, Theme: This session will present the results of the ongoing Settlement Patterns, and Society” (2:45p - 15 min.) investigations of the Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP). The session will be comprised of a series of papers that together will Fabrice Y. De Backer (Université de Strasbourg present the Bronze and Iron Age cultural sequence at Tayinat, and Université Catholique de Louvain), “Siege- and explore the broader socio-historical implications of the transi- Shield and Scale-Armor: Reciprocal Predominance tion from Bronze to Iron Age society in the region. and Common Evolution” (3:05p - 15 min.) Timothy Harrison (University of Toronto), Presiding

Thomas Hulit (Medicine Hat Museum), “R & D in the Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.) LBA?Possible Prototypes and the Origins and Develop- ment of Military Technologies in the Late Bronze Age” Stephen Batiuk (Johns Hopkins University), “Seeing (3:25p - 15 min.) Through Silt: Results of Remote Sensing at Tell Tayinat” (2:05p - 15 min.) A52 2:00-4:05pm Lynn Welton (University of Toronto), “Tell Tayinat During Cultural Heritage Protection and Management: the Early Bronze Age: Results of the 2008-2010 Seasons” Protecting Heritage in War-Zones and the (2:25p - 15 min.) Role of the Media (Workshop) Theme: Media coverage of armed conflict and its devastating Brian Janeway (University of Toronto), “The Early Iron effects on cultural heritage influences public opinion and also Age at Tell Tayinat” (2:45p - 15 min.) political leadership and therefore, ultimately, the course of events. James Osborne (Harvard University), “Spatial Analysis and What does all this mean for cultural heritage protection in the the Nature of Political Authority in the Syro-Hittite City- event of armed conflict? State: The Evidence from Patina/Unqi” (3:05p - 15 min.) Friedrich T. Schipper (University of Vienna), Presiding Jacob Lauinger (Johns Hopkins University), “Cuneiform Introduction (2:00p - 5 min.) Texts from the 2009 Season at Tell Tayinat” (3:35p - 15 min.) Friedrich T. Schipper (University of Vienna), “Protecting J.P. Dessel (University of Tennessee), “Late Iron Age Heritage in War-Zones and the Role of the Media: Setting Tayinat: The Field 5 Excavations” (3:45p - 15 min.) the Agenda” (2:05p - 5 min.) Elizabeth Snodgrass (National Geographic Magazine), A54 2:00-4:05pm “What’s It To Me? Transmitting the Importance of Individual Submissions I Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Armed Jennie Ebeling (University of Evansville), Presiding Conflict to the Lay Reader via the Media” 2:10p( - 15 min.) Sheila Shiki Michaels (Independent Scholar), “A Naos for Naomi” (2:00p - 20 min.)

24 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Academic Program — Saturday

Shannon Martino (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Ann Shafer (American University in Cairo), “Landscape Archaeology and Anthropology), “Defining the Eneolithic and Embodied Experience: Royal Images and Identity in to Early Bronze Age Transition in Northwestern Anatolia Ancient Assyria” (5:10p - 20 min.) Through an Analysis of Clay Figurines from Turkey Stephanie Reed (University of Chicago), “Blurring the and Bulgaria” (2:25p - 20 min.) Edges: A Reconsideration of the Treatment of Enemies Tobin Hartnell (University of Chicago), “Achaemenid in the Sculptures of Ashurbanipal” (5:35p - 20 min.) Persepolis in Regional Context” (2:50p - 20 min.) Sarah Graff (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Jane DeRose Evans (Temple University), “The Dating and “Humbaba’s Head: A New Interpretation” (6:00p - 20 min.) Reconstruction of the U-Shaped Building in Field C, Caesarea Maritima” (3:15p - 20 min.) A57 4:20-6:25pm Individual Submissions II Martha Risser (Trinity College) and Michael Zimmerman Annlee Dolan (San Joaquin Delta College), Presiding (Independent Scholar), “Eastern Terra Sigillata Wares at Caesarea Maritima” (3:40p - 20 min.) Introduction (4:20p - 5 min.)

A55 2:00-4:05pm John Monson (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), Archaeology of Israel “Overlooking a Coveted Commercial Corridor: The Theme: New studies and discoveries in Israel. Land of Geshur to Tyre via Hazor” (4:25p - 15 min.) Zvi Greenhut (Israel Antiquities Authority), Presiding Paul Christians (Open Hand Studios), “A Virtual and Physical Cultural Heritage Management Strategy for Uzi Avner (Arava Institute), “Where Are the Egyptian Umm el-Jimal, Jordan” (4:45p - 15 min.) Mines and Smelting Facilities at Timna?” (2:00p - 20 min.) Michael Eisenberg (University of Haifa), “Roman Antiochia Eckhart Schmitz (Carleton University), “The Great Pyramid Hippos of the Decapolis” (2:25p - 20 min.) The Measure of a Monument” (5:05p - 15 min.) Andy Overman (Macalester College), Michael Nelson Abdel-Latif Afandy (Cairo University), “First Aid to Archaeo- (Queens College), and Dan Schowalter (Carthage College), logical Finds During Excavation Applied on Saqqara Sites” “Placing the Temple Complex at Omrit: Ancillary Architec- (5:25p - 15 min.) ture, Decorative and Epigraphic Evidence, and Regional Mohamed Marouf (Sohag University), “Notes on Display Identity” (2:50p - 20 min.) and Storage Methods of the Archaeological Textiles in the Brita Lorentzen (Cornell University) and Stuart Manning Egyptian Museum in Cairo” (5:45p - 15 min.) (Cornell University), “Improving Israel’s Dating Scene: Lawrence H. Starkey (Independent Scholar), “More on Building a Dendrochronological Record for Israel and the Joseph: Found by Comparing Artifacts Excavated from Southern Levant” (3:15p - 20 min.) Palestine and Egypt” (6:05p - 15 min.) Dina Avshalom-Gorni (Israel Antiquities Authority) and A58 4:20-6:25pm Arfan Najjar (Israel Antiquities Authority), “A Second-Tem- Reports on Current Excavations and Surveys, ple Period Synagogue at Magdala on the Lake of Galilee” Non-ASOR Affiliated (3:40p - 20 min.) Yorke M. Rowan (University of Chicago), Presiding A56 4:20-6:25pm Matthew J. Adams (Bucknell University), “2010 Archaeologies of the Body in the Ancient Near East Early Bronze Age Excavations at Megiddo Jean Evans (University of Chicago) and Aubrey Baadsgaard and ‘Ain el-Qubbi” (4:20p - 20 min.) (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology), Presiding David Schloen (University of Chicago) and Amir Fink (University of Chicago), “Excavations at Zincirli Allison Thomason (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), (Ancient Sam’al), 2010” (4:45p - 20 min.) “Material Meanings: Possibilities for the Study of Dress in Mesopotamia” (4:20p - 20 min.) Mark E. Polzer (Institute of Nautical Archaeology), “Excavation of a Late 7th Century B.C. Phoenician Leann Pace (University of Chicago), “‘Let a Little Water Be Shipwreck at Bajo de la Campana, Spain: Update from Brought’: Locating Bodily Washing in the Archaeological the Field” (5:10p - 20 min.) Record” (4:45p - 20 min.)

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Robert Darby (University of Missouri-Columbia) and Shamir Yona (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Erin Darby (Duke University), “The ‘Ayn Gharandal “Rhetorical Features of Ben Sira and the Dead Sea Archaeological Project: Results of the 2009 and Scrolls in Light of Ugaritic Poetry” (8:45p - 15 min.) 2010 Seasons”(5:35p - 20 min.) A60 7:00-9:05pm Robert Smith (Mid-Atlantic Christian University), Current Issues in Biblical Archaeology “The 2010 Abila Excavations: Discoveries and an Theme: Archaeology of Jerusalem Observation Regarding Multi-Phase Byzantine Jane Cahill-West (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ecclesiastical Structures” (6:00p - 20 min.) and Robert A. Mullins (Azusa Pacific University), Presiding A59 7:00-9:05pm Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls Andrew G. Vaughn (ASOR), “The New Chronology of Theme: The Temple Scroll: Manuscripts, Literary History, Jerusalem is Not New–It is Alt (That is Albrecht)” and Social Background. (7:00p - 20 min.) C. D. Elledge (Gustavus Adolphus College), Presiding Garth Gilmour (University of Oxford and University of Introduction (7:00p - 5 min.) Stellenbosch), “The PEF Excavations in the City of David, Jerusalem, from 1923 to 1925: A Review” (7:25p - 20 min.) James Charlesworth (Princeton Seminary), “What Makes aManuscript a Witness to the Temple Gershon Galil (University of Haifa), “King David’s Scroll? An Introduction” (7:05p - 10 min.) First Decade as King of Jerusalem and his Rela- tions with the Philistines in Light of the Qeiyafa Lawrence H. Schiffman (New York University), Excavation and Inscription” (7:50p - 20 min.) “Editing the Temple Scroll” (7:15p - 20 min.) Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University), “On the Date and Molly Zahn (University of Kansas), “The Literary History Function of the Large Stone Structure in the City of David” of the Temple Scroll in Light of the Cave 4 Reworked (8:15p - 20 min.) Pentateuch Manuscripts” (7:45p - 15 min.) Amihai Mazar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Andrew Gross (Catholic University of America), “Which “Jerusalem before the 8th Century B.C.E.: An Archaeological Vorlage(n) Did the Authors of the Temple Scroll Use?” Assessment” (8:40p - 20 min.) (8:05p - 15 min.) Hannah Harrington (Patten University), “The Social Dynamics of Holiness in the Temple Scroll and MMT: Exclusion or Expansion?” (8:25p - 15 min.)

Registration Desk Hours At The 2010 Annual Meeting

he ASOR registration desk will Registration Desk Hours: be located on the third floor of the • Wednesday, Nov. 17 from 4:00pm to 9:00pm TSheraton Atlanta Hotel. All those • Thursday, Nov. 18 from 7:00am to 5:00pm pre-registered should come to the ASOR • Friday, Nov. 19 from 7:00am to 5:00pm registration desk topick up their name tag • Saturday, Nov. 20 from 8:00am to 12:00pm and Program and Abstract Book.

26 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 ASOR Annual Meeting Business Meetings, Receptions, and Events Schedule

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:30-12:30pm AIAR Executive Committee Vivian Bull, Presiding 1:00-4:00pm  Madaba Plains Project- `Umayri 10:45-12:30pm ASOR Baghdad Committee, Workshop, Douglas R. Clark, Larry G Marian Feldman, Presiding Herr and Kent V. Bramlett Presiding 12:30-1:30pm AIAR Board of Trustees, 1:00-2:30pm Administrative Oversight Commitee, Edward Wright, Presiding Timothy P. Harrison, Presiding 12:45-2:00pm ASOR Roundtables, 2:45–5:00pm Chairs Coordinating Council, Morag M. Kersel, Presiding Timothy P. Harrison, Presiding 12:45-2:00pm Madaba Plains Project Reception 7:00–8:30pm Welcome to the Annual Meeting Lawrence Geraty, Presiding and Plenary Address 12:45–2:00pm Tel Gezer Excavation Consortium and 8:30–10:30pm ASOR Welcome Reception Staff Consultation, Steven Ortiz and Sam Wolff, Presiding Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:30–5:30pm AIAR Board of Trustees Meeting, Edward Wright, Presiding 7:00–8:15am Bulletin of ASOR (BASOR) Editorial Board, James Weinstein, Presiding 2:00–3:00pm ASOR Lecture Committee, Jacob Wright, Presiding 7:00–8:15am Near Eastern Archaeology (NEA) Editorial Board, 2:00–4:00pm CAARI Executive Committee, Ann Killebrew, Presiding Raymond Ewing, Presiding 7:00–8:15am Regional Affiliations Committee 3:00–4:00pm ASOR Honors and Awards Committee, Susan Richard, Presiding Susan Sheridan, Presiding 12:45–2:00pm Madaba Plains Project Staff Consulta- 4:20–6:25pm ASOR Members Meeting & Awards tion, Douglas R. Clark, Presiding 6:30-7:30pm CAARI Reception 12:45–2:00pm Junior Scholars Luncheon, Robert and Erin Darby, Presiding Saturday, November 20, 2010 4:00–6:30pm AIAR Long Range Planning, 7:00–8:15am ASOR Program Committee, Elise A. John Spencer, Presiding Friedland and Andrew M. Smith, 7:00–9:00pm ASOR Committee on Archaeological Presiding Policy (CAP), 7:30–9:00am ASOR Finance Committee, Oystein S. LaBianca, Presiding Sheldon Fox, Presiding Friday, November 19, 2010 9:00am–5:00pm CAARI Board of Trustee Meeting, Raymond Ewing, Presiding 7:00–8:15am Consultation of Dig Directors in 9:00–11:30am ASOR Executive Committee, Jordan, Bethany Walker, Presiding P.E. MacAllister, Presiding 7:00–10:00am ASOR Committee on Publications 10:15–1:45pm ACOR Board of Trustees Meeting, (COP), Jeffrey A. Blakely, Presiding Artemis Joukowsky, Presiding 8:00–10:30am AIAR Fellowship Committee, 12:45–2:00pm Projects on Parade Poster Ses- Joan Branham, Presiding sion, Morag M. Kersel, Presiding 8:30–9:00am ASOR Membership Committee – 3:00–5:00pm Tel el Hesi Board & Publications Com- Combined, Tammi Schneider, Presiding mittee, Jeffrey Blakely Presiding 9:00-9:45am ASOR Membership Committee – Individual, Britt Hartenberger and Sunday, November 21, 2010 Randall Younker, Presiding 8:00am–12:00pm ASOR Board of Trustees, 9:00-9:45am ASOR Mem.Committee Institu- P.E. MacAllister, Presiding tional, Tammi Schneider, Presiding

ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 27 Academic Program Updates for the 2011 Annual Meeting

For the 2011 Annual Meeting, our Academic Program will incorporate four venues for presenting your research and new discoveries: “ASOR Sessions,” “Member-Organized Sessions,” “Workshops,” and “Projects on Parade Poster Session”.

1. ASOR Sessions: Sessions that are long-standing ASOR- “ASOR Sessions” for 2011 Annual Meeting mainstays sponsored by the Program Committee (with • Ancient Inscriptions existing chairs continuing to provide invaluable expertise • Archaeology and Biblical Studies and organization) to assure that the Academic Program for • Archaeology of Anatolia each Annual Meeting includes venues for the presentation of • Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula new research in the broad temporal, regional, and disciplin- • Archaeology of the Byzantine Near East ary areas represented in the ASOR membership (see list of • Archaeology of Cyprus “ASOR Sessions” below). • Archaeology of Egypt 2. Member-Organized Sessions: These sessions may be • Archaeology of Gender proposed by ASOR Members who wish to explore a special • Archaeology of Iran topic or theme at the Annual Meeting for a term of one to • Archaeology of Islamic Society three years. • Archaeology of Israel 3. Workshop Sessions: Workshops are interactive sessions • Archaeology of Jordan organized around a tightly focused topic or theme or around • Archaeology of Lebanon an archaeological site; in these, oral presentations and/or • Archaeology of Mesopotamia demonstrations are kept to a minimum in favor of open dis- • Archaeology of the Natural Environment: cussion between prospective session chairs, presenters, and Archaeobotany and Zooarchaeology in the Near East members of the audience. • Archaeology of the Near East: Bronze and Iron Ages 4. “Projects on Parade”: The Poster Session offers an infor- • Archaeology of the Near East : The Classical Periods mal venue for ASOR members to “get the word out” about • Archaeology of the Southern Levant their research and is designed to provide student and junior • Archaeology of Syria members an opportunity for greater involvement in the • Art Historical Approaches to the Near East program of the ASOR Annual Meeting. • Bioarchaeology in the Near East • Cultural Heritage Management: Methods, Practices, and Case Studies We encourage all members to contribute to the 2011 • History of Archaeology Annual Meeting’s Academic Program and welcome new • Individual Submissions Member-Organized Session proposals, new Workshop • Maritime Archaeology Session proposals, and paper proposals. Please keep in • Myth, History, and Archaeology mind the following deadlines: • Prehistoric Archaeology September 1, 2010: Call for new Member-Organized Sessions, • Reports On Current Excavations-ASOR Affiliated new Workshop Sessions, and new Roundtables posted to • Reports On Current Excavations-Non-ASOR Affiliated ASOR website and emailed to ASOR Members • Technology in Archaeology • Theoretical and Anthropological Approaches to the Near East October 1, 2010: Call for papers posted to ASOR website and emailed to ASOR members Pre-approved “Member-Organized Sessions” for 2011 Annual Meeting December 15, 2010: New Member-Organized Session • Caesarea Maritima: Byzantine/Islamic Transitions proposals and new Workshop Session proposals due • Community-Based Practice and Collaboration in Near Eastern Archaeology February 15, 2011: Abstract/participation forms from • Current Issues in Biblical Archaeology those wishing to present papers at ASOR due • Death and Burial in the Ancient Near East• Settlement and Society in the Ancient Near East April 15, 2011: ASOR office emails official acceptance/ • “Figuring Out” The Figurines of The Ancient Near East rejection notice to presenters • Hebrew Bible, History and Archaeology • August 15, 2011: Proposals for Roundtables and Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls “Projects on Parade” Poster Session due • Teaching Archaeology to Undergraduates: Success Stories and Cautionary Tales • Warfare, Empire, and Society in the Ancient Near East

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ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 29 The American Center of Oriental Research (AMMAN) Announcement of fellowships 2011-2012

Deadline for all applications is February 1, 2011

ACOR-CAORC Fellowship: Bert and Sally de Vries Fellowship: Three or more two- to six-month fellowships for masters and doctoral students. Fields of study include all areas of One award of $1,200 to support a student for participation the humanities and the natural and social sciences. Top- on an archaeological project or research in Jordan. Senior ics should contribute to scholarship in Near Eastern stud- project staff whose expenses are being borne largely by the ies. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $20,200. project are ineligible. Open to enrolled undergraduate or Awards may be subject to funding. graduate students of any nationality.

ACOR-CAORC Post-Graduate Fellowship: Harrell Family Fellowship: Two or more two- to six-month fellowships for post-doctor- One award of $1,800 to support a graduate student for al scholars and scholars with a terminal degree in their field, participation on an archaeological project or research in pursuing research or publication projects in the natural and Jordan. Senior project staff whose expenses are being borne social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines relat- largely by the project are ineligible. Open to enrolled gradu- ing to the Near East. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum ate students of any nationality. award is $29,400. Awards may be subject to funding. Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship:

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship: One award for one to two months residency at ACOR in Am- Two awards of four months for scholars who have a Ph.D. man. It is open to enrolled graduate students of any nation- or have completed their professional training. Fields of re- ality participating in an archaeological project or conduct- search include: modern and classical languages, linguistics, ing archaeological work in Jordan. The fellowship includes literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, room and board at ACOR and a monthly stipend of $600. comparative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Social and political scientists are encour- MacDonald/Sampson Fellowship: aged to apply. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign One award for either six weeks residency at ACOR for re- nationals living in the U.S. three years immediately pre- search in the fields of Ancient Near Eastern languages and ceding the application deadline. The maximum award is history, archaeology, Bible studies, or comparative religion, $20,400. (Applicants seeking sixth months of research time or a travel grant to assist with participation in an archaeo- can also be considered for an additional two months from logical field project in Jordan. The ACOR residency fellow- the ACOR-CAORC Post-Graduate Fellowship funding). ship option includes room and board at ACOR and a sti- pend of $600 US. The travel grant option provides a single ACOR Publication Fellowship: payment of $1,800 US to help with any project related ex- Maximum six-month fellowship for scholars with a Ph.D. or penses. Both options are open to enrolled undergraduate or terminal degree pursuing a publication project in the fields graduate students of Canadian citizenship or landed immi- of Jordanian archaeology, anthropology, cultural resource grant status. management, or history with the goal of completing a fi- nal publication. Open to all nationalities. Maximum award James A. Sauer Fellowship: of $27,000 including residency at ACOR in Amman. The One award for one month residency at ACOR. It is open award will be prorated accordingly if ACOR residency is to enrolled graduate students of U.S. or Canadian citi- not required. This work must be undertaken in Jordan. zenship participating on an archaeological project or research in Jordan. The fellowship includes room Jennifer C. Groot Fellowship: and board at ACOR and a stipend of $400. Two or more awards of $1,800 each to support beginners in archaeological fieldwork who have been accepted as team Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship: members on archaeological projects with ASOR/CAP af- One award of $1,800 to support a graduate student for par- filiation in Jordan. Open to undergraduate or graduate stu- ticipation in an ACOR-approved archaeological research dents of U.S. or Canadian citizenship. project, which has passed an academic review process. Se- nior project staff whose expenses are being borne largely by

30 ASOR Newsletter, Summer / Fall 2010 The American Center of Oriental Research (AMMAN) Announcement of fellowships 2011-2012 the project are ineligible. For this cycle the competition is Websites: closed to Jordanian students, but open to enrolled graduate and students of all other nationalities. ALSO NOTE: Frederick-Wenger Jordanian Educational Fellowship: Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) One award of $1,500 to assist a Jordanian student with the Multi-Country Research Fellowships: cost of their education. Eligibility is not limited to a specific The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and schol- field of study, but preference will be given to study related ars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the hu- to Jordan’s cultural heritage. Candidates must be Jordanian manities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish citizens and currently enrolled as undergraduate or gradu- to conduct research of regional or trans-regional signifi- ate students in a Jordanian university. cance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a partici- ACOR Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarships: pating American overseas research center. It is anticipated Four awards of $3,000 (2,124 JD) each to assist Jordanian that approximately ten fellowships of up to $9,000 each will graduate students with the annual costs of their academic be awarded. Applications will be available in early October. programs. Candidates must be Jordanian citizens and cur- Deadline: January 15, 2011 rently enrolled in either a Master’s or Doctoral program in a Jordanian university. Eligibility is limited to students in For more information and to download the application form: programs related to Jordan’s cultural heritage (for example: www.caorc.org/programs/ archaeology, anthropology, history, linguistics/epigraphy, conservation, museum studies, and cultural resource man- EMAIL: [email protected], agement related issues). Awardees who demonstrate excel- TEL.: 202-633-1599, lent progress in their programs will be eligible to apply in MAIL: consecutive years. Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)

ACOR Jordanian Travel Scholarship PO Box 37012, MRC 178 for ASOR Annual Meeting: Washington, DC 20013-7012 Two travel scholarships of $3500 each to assist Jordanians participating and delivering a paper at the ASOR Annual Meeting in mid-November in the United States. Academic Critical Language Scholarship Program for papers should be submitted through the ASOR’s website Intensive Summer Language Institutes by February 1, 2011. ACOR will host one of the 2011 Critical Language Scholar- ship Program’s Intensive Summer Arabic Language Insti- Please Note: CAORC, NEH, MacDonald/Sampson tutes. If you are interested in applying to the CLS Program (residency option), Sauer, and Bikai Fellows will reside at the to study Advanced Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced ACOR facility in Amman while conducting their research.. Arabic in Amman, Jordan, see www.CLSscholarship.org

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